are you joining us dummies…this is a very special group here…
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Special, as in “Special Needs”?
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you can join but you have to be nice
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“fuck” is not very nice.
“Special Needs” is funny.
turtle wrote
are you joining us dummies…this is a very special group here…
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lev wrote
Special, as in “Special Needs”?
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turtle wrote
you can join but you have to be nice
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lev wrote
“fuck” is not very nice.
“Special Needs” is funny.
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turtle wrote
lev you are a natural for us dummies
`My heart runneth over… Huuueyyy!! Raaaaalph!
Sorry I meant my stomach.
How did life come about? I believe in panspermia, the theory that suggests that the ingredients of life (raw materials) invaded Earth via comets. Crick believed this. The theory accounts for emergent properties that became life as we know it. The primordial "soup: was possibly warm springs at the bottom of the ocean. Therein archaebacteria were spawned. The rest is a matter of evolution.
Great - you think knowledge is a smorgasbord. You pick and choose what pleases you. You ought to be discriminating.
“Belief” is not knowledge. And belief without support is fantasy.
This theory has no value. It no more explains “emergent properties”, any more that the theory that life emerged discretely on earth. What make you think the idea that it came from space is any better than it coming from earth?
You just make further problems for yourself, as NOW you also have to account for how life started on a comet.
The science which demonstrates that life started here is pretty much in the bag.
Can you prove that Crick “believed” this? Or is it true that he thought it a possibility like any good scientist?
There is a difference.
Crick believed a lot of ‘questionable’ stuff. 
Agreed, But the panspermia theory makes sense. Comets have been found to contain oxygen, carbon and other chemicals necessary for living organisms to exist.
what are we going to do now about all the health care abuses…we have a very business driven system and the patient is getting screwed…
It’s quite insane. Patients are being given drugs and other drugs to offset the side effects of other drugs.
Relax. All the drugs that people take now are being poohed and peed into the sewer system and they end up in our fresh water supply. Pretty soon everyone will get meds for free just by drinking water from the tap. 
LOL.
us dummies need to know…there is a lot of bullshit out there about theism and antitheism…god or no god…
well it is simple…if you talk in terms of a higher power…the higher power is NATURE…we know some about that…
it determines everything…so all this god stuff is just arguing about nothing…nature is where it is at…we are dealing with the nature of things…
Nature and ‘nature of things’ are not the same concept.
ok lets just say NATURE…
By Nature, do you mean the environment?
NATURE would include the universe, life, everything we don’t know about NATURE…
On the BIG questions–Why are we here? and Why do we suffer? Does Nature provide answers? Perhaps. Being is belonging.
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we do not know the answers to the big questions…we are discovering nature and we react to what we are finding out…that is it
There is no overreaching purposive answer to ‘why we suffer’, because asking the question assumes that there is a possible world were there is none, and implies that nature has a reason - it does not.
Nature is simply what is.
You can say “HOW”, suffering might be part of a living strategy that has enabled feeling beings to avoid danger, but that is not a reason “WHY” there is suffering. Plants don’t suffer; it just is not part of their strategy.
So, as usual, “why” is usually the wrong sort of question.
Nearly all ‘why’ questions can be re-asked in a “HOW” form, and for those sorts of questions we can give good answers; but 'why" hints at intentionality, for which we cannot seriously provide answers that do not include god.
When humans finally worked out to ask ‘how’, everything fit into place.
Give it a try - re-ask a why and change it to a how, and you get answers that are useful and informative.