And, what are you BASING your CLAIM, here, off, or on, EXACTLY, besides your OWN ALREADY PRE-EXISTING BELIEFS and ASSUMPTIONS?promethean75 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 08, 2025 12:38 am Well, Aristotle's forms of causality are a little off. The purpose of the acorn is not the oak tree... the tree just follows from a series of natural chemical and material processes, none of which have any purpose either. It's the great assembly of contiguous regularity in nature that makes us think things are designed and have purpose. You'd have to be a moron to look around at this incredibly fragile, incredibly complex world and only say, "it just happened, and there is nothing behind it." And yet there really is nothing behind it.
Do you have ABSOLUTELY ANY ACTUAL PROOF FOR your CLAIM, here?
So, what IS 'the purpose' FOR ANY and/or EVERY 'thing', EXACTLY?promethean75 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 08, 2025 12:38 am Think of it like this. One wouldn't say the purpose of a single celled organism swimming around a vent at the bottom of the ocean is to become a human being millions of years later. So why give purpose to an acorn because it becomes a tree a little later? Or, say, a collection of axons in the brain that form a network that makes thinking possible a little later?
None of the antecedent conditions, things, or states of affairs in either of those examples had as their 'purpose' to come together and make a tree and thinking happen.