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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
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 Posted - 07/09/2008 : 06:33:50 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
I thought it looked more like Simon using the "has no function" meaning, since he referenced the appendix as having no function. I'm arguing against that, by saying that it does have a function, though not quite the same as it used to have.
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Yep, you are correct, this is where I was going to.
Organs which still have a function (even if it is not the one they originally had) could be argued as being part of the 'creation'.
I know that the coccyx has.
Thanks for pointing that mistake to me Mab; do you happen to have the reference somewhere. So that I can learn about it in more details...
Also, here is a quote about the whole demonstration bit. I like it.
Faith is not granted by tangible proof. It comes from the heart and the soul. If a person needs proof of a god's existence, then the very notion of spirituality is diminished into sensuality and we have reduced what is holy into what is logical.
- Salvatore
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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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