Re: "Talking with Monkey Men"

Michael Savoia (msavoia@iac.co.jp)
Thu, 6 Mar 1997 09:46:04 +0900

JMagill
>
> For example, Let's say everyone followed just one of the
> Commandments, say commandment number 9, "You shall not bear false
> witness against your neighbor." This means we shall not lie against
> others. If we always told the truth in our dealings with others

Savoia

This brings up an interesting point. Animal camouflage, which
clearly constitutes "bearing false witness", either for escape or as
a trap, was presumedly designed, thought out and created by this God,
who commands against such a thing. Curious.

Magill
> IS A GOD and He is indeed a creator. An uncaused being that is
> responsible for all other first causes.

Savoia

So he says, but really now, how could even God make such a claim?
How can God be sure there isn't some greater God, invisible to him,
hiding from him, observing him, judging him? Perhaps a higher
dimension to which God is completely oblivious. Do you, Magill,
suppose that God has ever once pondered on the "miracle" of his own
existence?

Magill
> Yet you want me to believe that the simplest form of life, a single
> celled ameba which is vastly, vastly vastly, far more complex in its
> basic design than netscape 3.01 gold, having over a trillion letters
> in it DNA code which if placed in any other order other than that

Savoia

Amazing. Humans have only 3 billion letters (nucleotides) in their
genome while the lowly amoeba gets "over a trillion". That's no
fair. :-) But then again, my Netscape is 3 megs large, (3 million
bytes, or computer "letters", if you will), so that means humans are
only 1000 times more complicated than Netscape. Kind of humbling
isn't it...

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