crap..i guess i didnt check on this for a while..
well the universe expanded slow enough so that gases and dust could contract, forming stars, etc. It also expanded fast enough so that it didn't form a premature "big crunch" before it could really expand enough to form stars, I'll get the exact uhm..."chance" of that happening, except its midnight here so im kinda tired..
as for feelings, if designed by nature naturally it would be to
A. have the stronger humans survive or...
B. have human race as a whole survive
AS an opening statement, if feelings, etc. were made for humans to thrive, it certainly is working pretty poorly, people are getting killed all over the world, millions are depressed, angry, etc.
Well I agree with you that rage is useful for getting revenge on people, or getting stuff back.
So rage favors one human over another. Is that logical? Not really. It isn't helping the human race survive as a whole, its only causing dispute among it, weakening it.
Now if nature designed rage to eliminate weaker humans, it would work like this.
causing dispute causes the death of one of the humans, which obviously the stronger will win.
Well humans who know they are weaker than another just don't attack them, unless they're extremely immature. Nobody fights to lose.
So lets say this kid who's mad at another goes with a bunch of friends and beats up a stronger kid, or kills him.
How does this benifit the stronger kid, or human race?
At any rate, rage was a bad example.
Pride is a better one. If you are proud, what does that do? it hurts you, unable to accept assistance when it would actually strengthen you.
Also, pride makes people hate you, who may choose to attack you. You may lose, or you may win. Seems a little random.
How does sadness help? Some kid is sad because he cant get a toy? Doesn't seem to benifit him or the human race.
Also...I've given how nature would use these different emotions to help humans survive if it was just nature. It uses rage to cause dispute, then death of weaker (sometimes). It uses pride to destroy weaker humans (sometimes). It gives people consiences, very strange...to have an idea of "right and wrong" in your head, (i.e. if I kill someone in rage it eliminates a weaker human lets say, but I feel guilty. Why? Nature dusnt kno.) It uses love (not romantic, brotherly love or what not) for what? To make people happy? Why would nature want people to be happy, in fact why would it have happiness, or humor, or what not at all? Why make life? Logic is about reason, and life has no reason thru science. It seems like nature has a mind, like nature has some sort of purpose. Extremely complex, some without a plausible reason. Maybe there is a mind behind all these complex un-understandable things...too complex to have developed from nothing at all, except matter. Maybe that would be God.....
And also, I'd like to point out..you hear all sorts of stuff about supernatural things happening all over the world. Theres a little truth in every legend, and there has to be a little truth in at least one of them. And if there's a little, it holds all the other ideas obsolete.
ugh..
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]Yes, isn't that why Christians invented Jesus? To humanise your remote and angry god?
Even scientists will agree Jesus existed.We didn't just look back in our history books and say..hey this guy seems like a good scapegoat and then write it up, especially since we believe deceit is a sin. Also, if I were an atheist I'd be quite content. No point in making up a religion, live life to the fullest!