Thus the Great Chain has not only functioned as a complete description of Creation (what philosophers call an ontology), it has also worked as a moral order sanctioning the use of everything. The achievement of the Great Chain of Being was to fold the beliefs of human superiority and entitlement into a single cosmological package. — Janus
A tendentious interpretation. — Wayfarer
The irony! :rofl: — Janus
Can you define belief, — 3017amen
Please tell me how the mind works like Daniel Dennett did... — 3017amen
I'll see how smart you are with this question: — 3017amen
If I'm driving my car daydreaming and crash and kill myself what caused me to do that? — 3017amen
So I can but you're supposed to know you are the atheist! — 3017amen
Conscious, subconscious or something else? Is the mind a mysterious phenomenon or is it all logical? — 3017amen
Does mathematical abstract ability confer any survival advantage? — 3017amen
Does music theory have any biological significance at all? — 3017amen
Do all events must have a cause? — 3017amen
You seem to presuppose that it cannot be both - or neither. Why?Is love a phenomenon or is it a logical? — 3017amen
There are indeed things I do not understand. That does not imply that there is a god.Do any of those suggest life might be a little mysterious? — 3017amen
Not at all. I will leave such to you.Or are you saying you have life all figured out? — 3017amen
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