Evolution says we are decended from random mutations and random chemicals getting together.  If this is true, and your brain is just random signals firing with no controller how can you trust your own thoughts?
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Your brain isn't firing randomly. Its a heuristic system, just like evolution.
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>>>> How did we evolve?\n\nThe same way everything evolved: changes in gene frequencies.\n\n>>>>>How have we become what we are?\n\nFrom what starting point? Bacteria? Lizards? Rats? Monkeys? Homo erectus?\n\n>>>>>What made us evolve into what we are now?\n\nNatural selection.\n\n>>>>>It can't just be climate change and surroundings.\n\nIt isn't. It was natural selection acted upon by environment.\n\n>>>>Are characteristics passed down?\n\n\nYes, they are.
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This isn't change; people like youself have been making such arrogant claims for the past two centuries.\nAnything you build will be deterministic. You may say it can "learn" but it's behaviour will be subject to how you program it and the environment it is in.\nHuman brain functions are non-deterministic. In short you can't copy it.
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tell a scientist that a truck can evolve given a billion years and he would say you are foolish.  The same scientist would say you are foolish to say that the theory of evolution is to be believed otherwise you are foolish.  truck is much much much less complicated than even a single celled oraganism. If a scientist can't even agree that a truck can never be made without a creator how in the world can he prove that the whole world with all its extrememly complex designs which are interdependent on each other so much that its so delicately balanced evolved itself? Doesn't that sound more stupid?   plus just because there are a set of evidences that support evolution that does not mean that evolution is proved. just because you see small footprints in the sand you can't conclude it is of a dog, it could be any other animal , hence the conclusions drawn from evidences can't really be conclusive.. whatever you think I can't ever understand evolution though I have really read and seen a lot about it.\n\n-----------------\n\nlol, see its hard to believe a truck could construct itself in a billion years.. taken as a big blunder said by me .. haha..  after all scientists say that evolution did happen through a series of random chances.. so why not a random chance of getting a truck? sounds absurd, huh?  thats the kind of absurdity that even the theory of evolution has because its says that so many things much much more complicated than a simple truck evolved itself from nothing.. I mean from no life. which is really much harder to believe.. and just one sentence out of a whole argument might look stupid, but when you take the whole argument it would not look that stupid. And evolutionary proof is not conclusive.. its only supportive.. there is much difference between supportive and conclusive.. and I am not an ignorant person who simply states without knowing anything, I am really much interested in science and read and see a lot of things..
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Wow - yes of course people have thought of it, that's why you have so many choice in religions or the neo-popular near athiest ideologies associated with Godless science by way of the theory of Evolution, which provides absolutely NO answers and especially NO comfort for what you're looking for.  Not ragging on Science, but nobody I know curls up with test tubes and litmus paper when they go to bed at night, and if we evolved and continue to evolve based on ridiculous odds why bother to have any order in our societies at all?  But I'm biased, I favor intelligent design.  And I do believe in a benevolent creator...although how and what escapes me....\n\nHonestly? If you haven't ever tried religion, it might not be a bad idea to look into one that you can agree with, but fair warning, there are SCADS of goofy people therein.  Of course, there will be scads of goofy people anywhere life takes you.... \n\nIt just sounds like you need to believe in something or fall in love to get your mind off the downer side of things.
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Since we as humans perceive our existence as being alive with the mind/brain as the processor of the very same there has to be a fate of design. The majority of the people that inhabit this planets have minds that are poorly programmed and poorly fed.\nThe brain has to make sense of everything or else it malfunctions (mental illness).\nVery few people have a firm enough grasp on the principles of physics and mathematics to grasp how random /chaos behaves and how it makes sense. The default is somewhat elementary belief structures based on limited ability to comprehend.\nAlso, life makes death a certainty within the corporeal sense.\nCurious people always ask about life after death, yet seldom\nquestion whom are what they were prior to being born.\nYour fate is your conception of your existence, the design is your own as well.\nWhatever this existence is, it is all one existence with many facets.\nLive it, enjoy it, why bother questioning it? The only answers you will believe are the ones you understand.\nExplain colors to the blind and laughter to the deaf.
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heres the deal.\nevolution only shows what MIGHT have happened if everything DID happen by RANDOM CHANCE. the chance of one protien molicual forming by random chance is 1/10^65.\nthats a small number.\nand thats only 1 simple molicule- not to metion the hundreds of other more complex ones.\nwould you believe me if I told you I saw a tornado go through a junk yard and randomly put to gether a shiny red caddy?every little detail from the headlights to the liscens plate?perfectly? probably not.\nbut thats what evolution is-- something happened randomly and put together this perfectly running,accuatly designed planet so that if 1 thing were to be off by more then 5 degrees life would end?\n\nand another thing--evolution doesnt show how the universe started.AND there is no proof that the universe is expanding(supporting the big bang theory).there is no way to show the stars and galexies are moving away from each other, is there?\nevolution just doesnt make logical sence because according to it, the universe has just been exploding and contracting for all of time and it did not have a beginning or end, which everything has to have.\nif we looked at how the Bible tells us, it would make a lil more sence.it says God created everything (intellegent design) INCLUDING TIME.He created all the dimentions and banned us to them to see if we would trust Him or not.\nand the Bible says clearly "in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" it doesnt say He might have, or there is some proof that, or there is a possibility He could hev, it says He DID.and if you dont belive the Bible, think about this--it say that Gods word (the Bible) will last forever... and so far it is the oldest most sold book of history, not to mention the most prooven.\nspeaking of proof, ever wondered why there seems to be no proof of God? chck this out.\nMatthew 16:4 (New International Version)\nNew International Version (NIV)\nCopyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society\n\n    \n4A wicked and adulterous generation looks for a miraculous sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah." Jesus then left them and went away.\n\nproof enough?\n\nand one more thing-- if you call someone names to try to make them and their ideas look less then you, it obviously means that you are trying to cover up something... such as your stubborness to your disprooves hypothosis' that YOU want to believe.\n\nAnd when you die and God says,"I dont know you" just remember i tried to warned you.\n\n\nfoot note to dvdi14-- thats not evolution.same thign with the so called moth evolution--there was smog in englend which darkend the trees so the whit moths showed up better an got eaten more and the brown moths were camoflaged.
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The theory delves into concepts of predestination, predetermination, and free-will. It proposes that human beings, animals, and others are really not in control of their own lives. Rather, what we do, when we do it, and how we go about doing it are determined by a complex set of interactions provided by the environment, people around us, etc. It is not hard to imagine some machine or random algorithm controlling these interactions, much like AI in a video game (FEAR, call of duty II...).
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Every now and then I'll take a chance and answer this.  \n\nIf God created us, he created us for a reason.  This suggests we can have purpose.  Our human potential is set at the moment of conception, genetically.  God, can assess how you did against your potential.  It is up to you.\n\nThe other side.  Life is totally materialistic.  Everthing is cause and effect.  If so, how can you have an original idea.  How would it be caused.  It is random?  Sorry!  I have random ideas, but I also think, I assess, I understand, I think, I am me.  Life is not materialistic, at least to me, unless I am deluded.  By the way, if I am deluded, so are you.  I am not, I believe, thus, life is not materialistic.  Think about it!\n\nBottom Line:  atheism leads to no free will.  A creator allows free will.  \n\nSorry, just seems to be the way it is.  If you are facing a contradiction, check your premises, you will find one is wrong. \n\nBy the way, who says God knows this, or that, or whatever?  Another man?  Why?  So what does that mean?  Be honest, what does that mean?  Nothing more than your words. Did God tell you He knows all?  If so, I'd like to talk to you.      \n\nMy friend, think about what you say.  You are looking for answers, but you reject them before you start.
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Interesting puzzle:\nfMRI studies have shown that neurons in the brain associated with a task begin to fire about 800 milliseconds before the person is even aware that they want to perform an action.\n\nDo we have no free will? \n\n\nMed Hypotheses. 2001 Mar;56(3):364-6.\nIf there were no free will: Fisher CM.\n\n\nElectrophysiological findings in humans who are performing voluntary acts, indicate that the intention to act, follows brain activity rather than preceding it. This has implications for voluntary behavior and the doctrine of free will. This essay reviews the fields of human behavior, including medicine, in which this new thesis might have far-reaching significance. Copyright 2001 Harcourt Publishers Ltd.\n\nAn extract:\n\n...it should be pointed out\nthat somewhat the same conclusion may be reached on\nthe basis of rather elementary observation. Every thought,\nfeeling, inclination, intention, desire, every mental\nimpression no matter how brief or faint, must be created\nby nervous system activity. How else could they arise? Ideas would have to arise without a physical basis.\nNervous system activity must always precede. Every\nnuance of thought and feeling arises in and must be preceded\nby its own specific electrical configuration in the\nbrain. If one has the experience of ‘willing’ the nervous\nsystem to do something, the impression of ‘willing’ must\nhave been preceded by nervous system activity.\nOtherwise there would be no source and we are in the\nrealm of the supernatural. Before I think of anything, it\nmust first have taken form in my nervous system.\n\n\nTherefore: answer to your question would be 'nervous system activity'
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"Let us reason together", sayeth the Lord.\n\nChristians are not saying you shouldn't use your mind. They're just telling you "don't be brainwashed." It would seem to me that your idea of "using your mind" means accepting as fact something that not only hasn't been proven, but in actuality has been DISproven, and is held to with religious fervor by so-called "scientists". I assume you are speaking of the fallacy of evolution, which has been disproven by every major field of science.
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There are the theories about the flagellum motor and documenting bones in sedimentary rock could be misleading because the world isn't flat and what they used to base time on hardened rock can be duplicated within minutes instead of thousands of years.\n\n But, we do obviously have traces of vestigial organs and share genetic similarities with chimps. It is ridiculous to believe we simply sprouted from nothing. I do believe in evolution. Anyone whose been to a museum to see the slowly progressing posture of the caveman to human sees the sense it makes.\n\n Look at nature if things didn't slowly adapt we'd all die. There is no perfect medium because things are always adjusting to circumstance. And circumstance will never be the same. Evolution is in family genetics. It's in everywhere and everything. Survival of the fittest.
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Well, scientically it would be attributed to evoltion and how each evolved,\n\nhowever the answer may lay in the concept of the soul, or whatever is in control of the brain.
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Simply that there are two things at work, here. Firt of all, Humans have Free Will, and their own free will can lead to problems, the natural consequences to their choices and their behavior. \n\nSecond thing is random chance, not a Gd who condemns and where every little thing is a result of some punishment, or, for that matter, a reward:::\n\n            ""Ecclesiastes 9:11  I returned, and saw under \n            the sun, that the race is not to the swift, \n            nor the battle to the strong, neither yet \n            bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of \n            understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; \n            BUT TIME AND CHANCE HAPPENS TO THEM ALL.""
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I believe that it is generally a mistake to search out this sort of doctor. The fatalistic belief that somehow genes determine behavior  undermines entirely the reality of our incarnation. We are fully responsible for creating our reality, including the reality of our denial of this fact. The "genetic" paradigm would have us believe that consciousness is to the brain like urine is to the kidney: namely, an excreta.  If the truth be told, it is our choices and our will that determine what neurons fire in our brain.....the order is reversed, and it is the denial of our power to create our reality that gives these "professionals" so much power over us, and enables us disempower ourselves..
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I think it's just a random fact that neither proves nor disproves anything.  I do, however, believe in creationism (intelligent design) based on the fact that believing in evolution is the equivalent of watching a tornado rip through a junkyard and expecting a perfectly assembled 747 ready for takeoff.
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Sure, that's what God is. Continual evolution. Just look at the past few hundred years. Have not humans evolved with our discoveries and ways of thinking? I dont think you could just say that is made from order and chaos. It is creative. Life is creative and evolving, therefore God made evolution so humanity can continually change and improve itself.