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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: one_less who wrote (39104)6/4/1999 6:41:00 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (5) of 108807
 
And what are you using as a
comparative measure of perfection?

An EXCELLENT question. What IS perfection when it comes to evaluating nature? Every time we "improve" on nature, we seem to screw it up. I will be very interested in the answers you get to this question.

Humans can define perfection in items or systems we create or invent But what about natural system?

On the other hand, man is natural. If you define whatever man does as being natural and therefore part of nature, then we have a real problem because I hope even you wouldn't define the current state of the politicial and economic world as perfect. (Or would you? Is having starving children in Africa and Asia, bombing in Europe, hundreds of thousands of people in tent cities, etc. perfect?)

So I think in order to contend that nature is perfect, you have to define nature as nature WITHOUT man's interference. But is that fair?
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