New light shed on Charles Darwin's 'abominable mystery'

You take this all pretty seriously, don't you?

How does natural selection undermine the idea of a supreme being calling the shots?

There are mechanisms by which it rains which don't require God to magically form droplets of water in the air and throw them down to the earth...

No, that's deism.

We shouldn't fool ourselves into thinking we've uncovered
even the tiniest fraction of that which has lived here before.

What really was, would be incomprehensible. 
What Darwin was describing was his ignorance.

Because he was a scientist.

Not quite. The software doesn't have a life if its own, it needs the hardware to exists. You people think that the software can exist all by itself.

Everything is proof positive that when the hardware (our bodies, our brains) deteriorates, the software (our minds) decays right along with it.


I've seen someone lose their mind over a period of almost twenty years, one minuscule piece at a time, at one time you have a wholesome person in full possession of her mental capabilities, twenty years later there is almost nothing left of that person, not even her identity. She doesn't even know who she is anymore. But in between, twenty years of very slow decline and no way of telling at what point you've lost the person. This should show to even the most stubborn ones that the mind can't exist separately from the body. It should but it doesn't, because the most stubborn ones are not that way because of anything related to reason. They're frightened fools that will never know that it's safe outside, because they'll never even try.

Well, thanks. Did you copy over the existing questions and responses? Did you "split and move" the thread?