An Alien God (Eliezer Yudkowsky, about Evolution)
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An Alien God (Eliezer Yudkowsky, about Evolution)
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Re: An Alien God (Eliezer Yudkowsky, about Evolution)
#2Technically you don't need multiple Gods, you need a God that's an economist. If rabbits can't run, the foxes will kill themselves off because there's a near infinite demand but extremely limited supply.
I suppose if the 'one true god' was an economist, all religion got it wrong and our ancestors have been worshipping pure evil for the past few millennia.
Re: An Alien God (Eliezer Yudkowsky, about Evolution)
#3Technically you don't need multiple Gods, you need a God that's an economist. If rabbits can't run, the foxes will kill themselves off because there's a near infinite demand but extremely limited supply. I suppose if the 'one true god' was an economist, all religion got it wrong and our ancestors have been worshipping pure evil for the past few millennia.
I want what you're having...
Re: An Alien God (Eliezer Yudkowsky, about Evolution)
#4Good stuff. Just finished Dawkins' new book: The Greatest Show on Earth - should be introductory biology reading for high school students.
However, still prefer his The Selfish Gene for raising my consciousness the most.
Re: An Alien God (Eliezer Yudkowsky, about Evolution)
#5Good stuff. Just finished Dawkins' new book: The Greatest Show on Earth - should be introductory biology reading for high school students. However, still prefer his The Selfish Gene for raising my consciousness the most.
I have bought The Greatest Show on Earth but haven't read it yet. Dawkins is an author that I automatically buy (won't wait for it to be available at the library...).
Selfish Gene was indeed life-changing for me.
I you want more Yudkowsky stuff on Evolution, check out the rest of this sequence of posts:
Re: An Alien God (Eliezer Yudkowsky, about Evolution)
#6The "natural world" we observe is not the world God created. It is a ruined version of it.
Re: An Alien God (Eliezer Yudkowsky, about Evolution)
#7The "natural world" we observe is not the world God created. It is a ruined version of it.
Yeah, wish people would critique good versions of their opponents rather than bad versions. Otherwise, no one learns anything. Both sides remain content in their arguments and assume the other side is a moron.
Re: An Alien God (Eliezer Yudkowsky, about Evolution)
#8Technically you don't need multiple Gods, you need a God that's an economist. If rabbits can't run, the foxes will kill themselves off because there's a near infinite demand but extremely limited supply. I suppose if the 'one true god' was an economist, all religion got it wrong and our ancestors have been worshipping pure evil for the past few millennia.
Well, an economist and a sadist.
Re: An Alien God (Eliezer Yudkowsky, about Evolution)
#9The "natural world" we observe is not the world God created. It is a ruined version of it.
Yeah, wish people would critique good versions of their opponents rather than bad versions. Otherwise, no one learns anything. Both sides remain content in their arguments and assume the other side is a moron.
I have no idea what you two are talking about. Are you ambiguously trying to argue for creationism? If so, could you point me to those "good arguments"? I've never seen them.
Re: An Alien God (Eliezer Yudkowsky, about Evolution)
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, wish people would critique good versions of their opponents rather than bad versions. Otherwise, no one learns anything. Both sides remain content in their arguments and assume the other side is a moron.
I have no idea what you two are talking about. Are you ambiguously trying to argue for creationism? If so, could you point me to those "good arguments"? I've never seen them.
Methinks you haven't looked.
I went to seminary briefly before deciding to go back to being a coder, and my favorite courses were apologetics and the courses having to do with creationist theory.
They didn't teach creationist theory as the absolute definitive truth, they tought it as a plausible element to many Christian worldviews (in many variants, including Deism, Intelligent Design, Young Earth, and others).
If you're looking for a variety of resources representing the different creationist worldviews, check the curriculum and resources at Summit Ministries. They were, at one time, loosely affiliated with Dobson's Focus on the Family organization (not sure of the current status of that affiliation), and lead by really deep thinkers in Protestant beliefs.