by Terry 42 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
How are you defining "best" in your question, Terry?
Best FOR something? Best AT something? Best qualitatively, in which case, what is your standard?
Best as in superlative in compariosn WITH somehting?
Also, who is to judge? Without further definition, I wouldn't know where to start with your question.
...Best at describing reality.
I wonder if we'll ever get to the point where we grow cars. Maybe a nano assembly process, or literally creat a plant that pulls all the metals and stuff out of the ground to put it together.
Good thread, btw.
S
Make em have a fight. The one who wins is best. :)
What about genetically engineered to evolve by a higher form of life? The only problem is that the higher form of life is busy right now and forgot to come back and complete the project? In the meantime it's a genetic crapshoot out there. With all the breeding going on we aren't really any better than we used to be. I am no more healthy than my Great-grandfather, no stronger really, no smarter. I may live slightly longer but that is only because as a collective humanity has figured some crap out with time. We still have just as many difficulties to deal with. Some exist because of our " figuring crap out ". Are we really that much better?
As far as the OP is concerned I personally belive that a lifeform must be created to be alive so it can " evolve ". I don't subscribe to the theory that life appeared by chance without help.
' I don't subscribe to the theory that life appeared by chance without help.'
What is life?
S
I am no more healthy than my Great-grandfather, no stronger really, no smarter.
That can't be accurate.
Could you explain that? I think that I am just adapted to my eviroment which is differeny from his. I don't see how that makes me a better human specimen.
...Best at describing reality.
In respect of the question?
hmmm. I don't know.
Tell you what, though, I sometimes think we are not as knowledgeable as our ancestors. You'd think we were, with all the computers, space exploration etc. But are so specialised, nowadays.
We have TV's, computers, electric washing machines, cars, trains, you name it, we have it. but can we all make one?
Yes, I know some of you can, amongst the membership there will be specialists of every sort. Even I have things I excel at, but I can't mend a TV or understand propelry how the pictures fly through the air....I'm using that example deliberately as one or two people objected to it in another thread, but it's my example and it works for me!
As mankind got better at things, specialists emerged, such as a blacksmith or a wheelwright. But still, even very recently, most of us could do mostt hings. With industralisation and particularly in the technological age, specialisation has galloped ahead.
So, which is best from the options in the thgread title????....er.... hang on a m,inute? Who says this is an either or? Su[ppose we were created as blobs and evolved into where we are now? Which would we be?
I reckon we are probably, maybe, perhaps, both things at once!
..Best at describing reality.
Under that criteria I would think that evolved makes more sense.
If we evolved then we are what we would think we should be : Better than we were 10000 years ago, but not perfect.
On a planet of mostly water, we can't breath water, we lose our sight and hearing with age, we have an appendix, etc.
If we had been created by a perfect being, logically, He would have created us perfect too so, we would be able to breath underwater, never get tired or old or weak or lose vision, never get sick or have organs that can kill us.
