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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (26956)	8/24/2009 2:15:10 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

I certainly understand that. I have read a few books and talked to a few scholars in my life. My take is more subtle, I suppose. I think there is probably something more. You and I are discussing and analyzing things while we stand on a grain of sand hurtling through space and time. I question things like: Why is there evolution?? Why does evolution go in this direction and not that direction?? We could follow the Buddha and say "DESIRE". But does that spider have "desire"?? In a subtle sense, he or she MUST?? Do laws come before consciousness or does a self organizing principle create (or reveal) patterns?? If we believe in something can we make it exist? Dismissing the silly Gods invented by man is a transparent and simple matter. But we still float on a leaf across an infinite pond and we wonder...