Nice post and beautiful pictures!
When I am surrounded by nature, it is impossible not to believe in God or in that intangible universal force, of which we are a part.
Oh, boy. It's attractive reasoning, but unfortunately it's fallacious. It's known as confirmation bias or cherrypicking. The thing is that there are many horrible things in nature, such as parasites and cancer, to give a couple of classic examples, that easily undermine the "impossibility" you mention. Just happened to be watching a documentary today about Asian hornets invading bee hives and massacring them to take the hive and its resources. I felt terrible for the little bees, but the hornets were forced to go to "war" in order to survive.
Hi @eniolw,
If we take away the divine conception of nature, she is the living sample of duality, things happen that we appreciate as good and things happen that we qualify as horrible. In the end, there is an intrinsic balance in the trophic chains of an ecosystem. Bees in large numbers and without resources are predators of other living things. Let's not talk about their mechanisms of swarming to kill the wasps that prey on them. Where does this group intelligence of action that tries to balance the scales come from?
In the case of cancer, it is one more disease that man faces for his "survival". The fact that it is a disease with the stigma of "death" does not mean that at the cellular level it does not induce a battle to achieve an immunological balance to defeat those cells that are out of the pattern of the functioning of the others.
Anyway, I could also talk about parasites. These are intelligent beings that do not kill their host, on the contrary, they only need to weaken it, but they need it alive in order to guarantee their survival. However, if we approach it from the point of view that we are matter, in order to transform itself, matter needs variables that make it evolve towards something else by changing its initial state. The balance of energy in the process of transformation of matter is governed by something. It makes me happy to think that it is called God or simply an undeniable energy that impacts us all even if we do not see it.
Thanks for visiting my post, I appreciate it!
I know. The point of the objection is that we can't only appeal to the good things to make a case while ignoring the bad things that hamper that very case. Nature has both beautiful and awful things. I could grant that if there's an entity or force responsible for the good things, then it has to be responsible for the bad things as well.
The most plausible explanation is that it's the product of many years of evolution. The documentary I mentioned showed how the Asian bees had effective defensive strategies to battle the invader Asian hornets and even succeed. They said the bees can do so because both species have been evolving and cohabiting together for a while. However, in the same documentary they said that those Asian hornets where taken to Europe, a different ecosystem, and when they started to invade the hives, the European bees could not put up any defense. They were slaughtered despite they were only 30 hornets vs 30,000 bees. The thing is the European bees didn't evolve along with the Asian hornets, so they weren't smart enough to protect themselves.
Sure, I'm constantly reading posts.
Of course, and that's the wonderful thing about dissertations on the blockchain. They are enriching.