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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: Solon who wrote (377)8/12/2000 4:02:23 PM
From: booters  Read Replies (4) of 28931
 
<A flower doesn't WANT to live, does it? It doesn't WANT anything, does it? >

I think you have already answered that question.

<I believe that all things are a matter of self interest>

All things have and are driven by self interest. All things are seeking efficiency and that is genetic.

<Why have humans evolved to help those that have no apparent value in an evolutionary context >

It maybe premature to assign the label evolution to such a recent event. If we are still doing this in a thousand years then perhaps.

<Is the most successful end of all growth or progress already predetermined, and by what laws or by whom? <

Yes, physics.

That brings up a question I have. If all things are a reaction to stimuli, a chemical reaction to a stimulus, and that reaction is predetermined by physics. Then would you not have to say all things are predetermined?

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