Singularity wrote:
That is true but does not automatically imply a dry lifeless pragmatism. Though we are dust, returning to dust, aint it cool that WE are some of the dust that gets to walk around, figure stuff out and find and hug each other? There is no need for wishing for wonder; we are immersed in it! I forget who said it, "we are the means by which the universe strives to observe and know itself."
There are millions of things to smile at and a few to love!
Ah, ha. But it is ORGANIZED stardust, way beyond the principle of "random mutations" and "natural se******n." Doug Axe at the Discover Institute calculated it would take 1 trillion years raised to the 17th power to achieve the rational questioning human body we hold, a far greater time expanse than the mere 4-1/2 billion years of Earth's existence, and impossible under the 14 billion years since Big Bang.
"Random" was coined by arrogant anthropologists who cannot construct the Tree of Life, just as "miscellaneous" was coined by the US Army Counter Intelligence Corp that could not file. Just try to find old WWII articles in the National Archives.
And yes, love does make the world go round.