Oddbean new post about login | logout Fun fact. Bats and dolphins evolved echolocation in the same way (down to the molecular level). An analysis revealed that 200 genes had independently changed in the same way and this is an extreme example of convergent evolution. https://image.nostr.build/b8c1cdcecad0093cfe1855549402c8a3ee27a7d10673a63f2309de4f80ed447a.jpg
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God set that feature on then
both are mammals, He may have made one earlier that had this feature and one went to the caves and one went to the water also, you may have heard of Rupert Sheldrake's Morphogenetic Fields theory... Could be this was all designed in so this "convergence" was likely to happen to similar creatures both in the dark there is too much evidence of genetic variation and speciation to say that sometimes there isn't hard forks as one species turns into two, but to say that God couldn't have made it that way deliberately is kinda silly
i've heard of that field before and in general i am very interested in systems theory, it really is the most abstract science field... i have also experienced things on several occasions in my life that laid out the top down view in this way and that's the thing about it, it's language, ultimately, a theory of language, in the sense of grammatical, semantic structuring across time and space it's a very nice viewpoint when it gets hold of you, it gives you that "everything is as it should be" feels
yeah, i really enjoyed Mises part in Human Action about the thing of the impossibility of omniscience and omnipotence at the same time... it reminded me of what the Qur'an says about many gods making a universe impossible and i'm pretty sure there is several verses in the bible scattered across both of the books that explain how polytheism is wrong because of the impossibility of agreement between multiple gods
Evolution is the source of people and then people create gods - lots and lots of Gods.
the people who use the capital or definite article don't believe in many gods those are just powerful people, or things who wrote the source CODE though? yes, the God
Unknown does not = god, its just not known yet.
in the absolute sense, that's precisely what i believe - God is always here and now and always was and always will be... but continues to increase as more good things emerge and rise to heaven... but it's ultimately unknown because in the end, there is no end, and it is only in the end He is complete, but he is always the most complete, so it's a funny thing
