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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (80320)	1/26/2004 8:52:25 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

No there is plenty of science to support the idea that sperm and dead leaves don't think or feel anything. I have never seen any science proving either of those things, and I doubt you have either. We have little if any idea what sperm or leaves think or feel. Very often when we think we know something in science we find out we are totally wrong. (For example, the discovery of thriving colonies of life at vents in the deep ocean floor, and in lakes in the Anarctic that are ice covered all year long, both astonished biologists because their then current theories were that life couldn't exist in either location.) So no, we don't know much if anything about the minds or feelings of sperm or leaves. If you claim we do, you simply demonstrate your ignorance of the expanse of what we don't know.