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- From: pandit@ssd.intel.com (Milind Pandit)
- Subject: Re: God doesn't exist
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- References: <1993Jan25.101937.18534@netcom.com> <C1FqD7.Hos@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan25.225310.29640@crash>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:00:24 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.225310.29640@crash> mdc@crash.cts.com (Milo D. Cooper) writes:
- >In article <C1FqD7.Hos@news.cso.uiuc.edu> gambit@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu () writes:
- >=
- >=The fact that every entity does not require a cause is obvious, because the
- >=Universe (if we take it to be the totality of existence) obviously did not
- >=have a cause. There could be nothing to cause existence, because it would
- >=have to exist itself.
- >
- > How is it, then, that from such a nihilistic origin of life
- >emerged conscious life aware of its past, and thus concerned with its
- >future? Logic is subject to the dictates of experience.
-
- If you explore exactly what we mean by "consciousness," "awareness,"
- and "concern," you will realize that these things are not magical, and
- could evolve in organisms over millions of years.
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