August 26, 2005

ID: What's it all about, Darwin?

By Dennis Sevakis
My mother says she is a Darwinist. I'm not sure of all the things that could or should imply. I take it to mean the she does not believe that the Cosmos and all that it contains is the result of the will of a Supreme Being. Nature just exists and that is all there is to it. Asking what is the purpose of human existence is a nonsense question. It has no meaning. As we have no conscious origin, we have no conscious destination. Hence no purpose.  This idea is quite troubling to many humans as we are quite reluctant to attach no meaning to the thoughts and desires coursing through the synapses of our brains. And so, for most of human existence, the idea that there was no God was a heresy to be condemned, punished, reviled, tortured and even burned at the stake. When our social institutions evolved to the point where asking such a question wasn't as quite as painful or harmful to one's health, science, in the sense that we use today, began to blossom. And it bloomed because of...(Read Full Article)