Origin of Life; pre-planning (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Saturday, October 08, 2011, 03:24 (4796 days ago) @ dhw

Very nicely put, if I may say so, but "unapologetic" atheists and agnostics can and do have precisely the same sentiments. Or do you honestly think that only theists can appreciate the wonders of life? I'd write you a poem if I wasn't about to revel in the succulent pleasures of my beloved wife's exotically flavoursome cooking.-You are a very lucky man. I don't get a home cooked meal for another week :( -As for my comments, I am certain some of them do share the same sentiments. I am also just as certain that there is enough grantsmanship and fear of becoming the focus of scorn of fellow scientists that putting pet theories ahead of common sense and wide eyed wonder is not uncommon either. I.E. Could you imagine Dawkins standing up on a platform in central London, addressing his pseudo-scientific atheist fan club and saying, "Everything we ever thought we knew about evolution is 100% wrong. Looks like we are back saying 'God did it!'"-I am constantly reading about new findings that overturn the traditionally accepted views of the world, and just as often reading the papers of the pooh-poohers who are saying it CAN'T be THAT way because it has always been THIS way. (With this way being whatever way the last 20 years of their career they have spent researching.) -So what should they focus on? Focus on being less focused and letting understanding come to them. I am not suggesting that they stop learning, but rather that they remove the constraints from their minds while they learn so that they are an empty cup ready to be filled instead of a full cup ready to spill out on everything they see.-I think I mentioned that I am studying Game Design at the moment. Not the most noble of professions, but interesting. I was struggling with a mathematical modeling problem while sitting out on the deck. Finally frustrated and irritated to no end, I just close my eyes and baked in the sun for a few minutes. Out of no where, the veil was lifted, not from my eyes, but from my ears and the answer that I had been blindly grasping and struggling to find was surrounding me the whole time. The problem was that I was trying to make the problem fit my solution, instead of the other way around. Kind of like what it seems they are trying to do with evolutionary biology(and cosmology come to think of it). This kind of spontaneous solution finding happens to me with irritating regularity. It would probably happen to them too if they could just focus on being less focused. :P

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.