There Are No Good Reasons To Believe

If I Were To Give A Prize For The Single Best Idea Anybody Ever Had, I'd Give It To Darwin For The Idea Of Natural Selection - Ahead Of Newton, Ahead Of Einstein - Because His Idea Unites The Two Most Disparate Features Of Our Universe: The World Of Purposeless, Meaningless Matter And Motion, Particles Jostling On The One Side, And The World Of Meaning And Purpose, Design On The Other.

Moreover, The Eye Contains A Big Flaw: The Retina Is Inside Out. Why Would An Almighty Designer Do Such A Thing? No Intelligent Designer, .. Would Put Such A Clumsy Arrangement In A Camcorder, And This Is Just One Of The Hundreds Of Accidents Frozen In Evolutionary History That Confirm The Mindlessness Of The Historical Process.

People Ache To Believe That We Human Beings Are Vastly Different From All Other Species - And They Are Right! We Are Different. We Are The Only Species That Has An Extra Medium Of Design Preservation And Design Communication: Culture.

If Nobody Cares, Then It Doesn't Matter What Happens To Flowers.

Consciousness Is Cerebral Celebrity--nothing More And Nothing Less. Those Contents Are Conscious That Persevere, That Monopolize Resources Long Enough To Achieve Certain Typical And "symptomatic" Effects--on Memory, On The Control Of Behavior And So Forth.