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ORIGINAL: jackbauer
For the life of me, I cannot why anyone should care about what happens to a bunch of randomly moving particles, which is exactly what “life” is barring any sort of supernatural influence.
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Um, yeah, I invented that term for lack of a better one. My appologies. It was meant to describe a person who ascribes to both the view that all things are determined by random motion (determinism) and the view that laws are absurd (anarchy).
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I certainly allow laws in the given scenario, but I demand that the laws be based on scientific reason. Not just surface-level reason, like “if people kill each other it will be bad for the species,” but deeper reason, like “why does the species matter in the first place?”“Randomly moving particles” shows your bias. That is NOT a phrase that I would consider accurate – I do not consider any of us as “randomly moving particles.” I don’t have any idea what concept you are trying to form with that phrase. It’s completely foreign as an idea to me. There are groups of organisms (fungi, bacteria)that will coalesce into a single organism and function as an organized organism even though they are individuals, ie slime mold
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/944790.stm
They are anything but “random moving particles.”
As for “deeper reason” I also do not understand. The survival instinct all by itself is a pretty considerable argument by itself. Define “deeper reason.” you mean in the Universe, as in the whole Universe, what is our purpose, what is our point? Compared to what exactly?
With or without God, what is our purpose, what is the meaning of life is something we all personally try to discover, so God is not relevant. Ask your Minister or Priest or Rabbi of whomever & the best they could ever tell you is that it is one of God’s mysteries. You want more from non-believers than that, more than what a believer can provide and answer?
