Originally posted by whiteSE:
. The basic reaction may be measured by x amount of adrenaline or other chemical racing through the human body, but the action and subsequent reaction simply cannot be judged due to the complexity of the human mind.
This is the area I feel that, once again, may be left to the touch of divinity on homo sapiens. The combination of intellect, imagination and feeling is so far advanced over any species so far studied by mankind that our pinnacle of existance has to be looked at very closely, as well as what has been the cause of it. In short, I think the degree to which we can love, hate, trust and doubt as well as have faith is what determines what we owe to some "outside" force beyond mere evolution.
So,,,what about all the things that couldnt be explained in the past, and have been attributed to gods, and where in effect natural phenomena.
The rational that if it cant be explained, its divine,,,doesnt hold much water...Absolutely not. I firmly believe that all of the items I've discussed have tie-ins at a spiritual level as well, not merely at a mental/emotional/physical level. I believe that it isn't just the brain that's working here on these things.
Furthermore, lack of an explaination or understanding of something doesn't qualify it innately as an Act of God, mystical phenomenon, Santa bringing presents, the Force, etc.
I simply feel we as a species owe our advanced nature as compared to the rest of the species on this planet to an "outside" force, not a random bolt of lightning that fused a couple of amino acids together in a totally unexpected way a few billion years ago. Since neither party has definite proof, I feel I'm on relatively safe ground with my statement.
Again, if we chase this down far enough, we'll run this into what cause the Big Bang and just who in the hell exactly lit the fuse to it in the first place.
