To all the materialists who think the incredible designs of nature - including on fish, birds, flowers and even caterpillars - emerge from nothing more than the most reductionist scientific evolutionary forces, I joyously disagree with you.

Apr 5, 2021 · 4:04 AM UTC

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I shouldn’t have used the word “reductionist” that way. The people criticizing me on that one are right. My bad. Sorry.
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"There is grandeur in this view of life... whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." - Darwin
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I've never found this argument persuasive in the least. Sorry, hard joyous disagree.
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Non materialistic atheist here. God is a patriarchal myth all about control. Surprised you subscribe to it
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You might win some but u just lost one
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This planet is a living library. Earth is always being seeded with new life. 💖
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Yes they do. Its evolution
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You're confusing philosophy with science. Evolution isn't reductionist, it's the opposite.
Let me know when your fairy tales allow us to predict or control something.