Monday, March 16, 2009

The Evolution of God

The Credulous Evolutionist Series just can’t pass up the God-on-the-brain nonsense that is being passed around. Because there is a portion of the brain that goes to work when considering various questions concerning God, the immediate jump is to how it evolved. It has to have evolved, you see, because everything does and did, it is settled, so there.

The conclusion of these brain scan – phrenologists is always the same. They conclude that if a software routine exercises a certain portion of the hard disk, or even the RAM, that proves something. It does not, of course. The brain is plastic; normal brains move such things around the hard disk frequently. It proves exactly nothing. But it is something to write and publish a paper about, and tickle the Atheists with.

Read some of the comments attached to the article for responses from the proponents of unexamined Atheism.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"It has to have evolved, you see, because everything does and did, it is settled, so there...."

So you finally admit it!

CrazyBob said...

If one took this approach to analyzing what happens in a computer, the results would be laughable. Various programs do not run in exactly the same RAM from one session to another. Given the complexity of the brain, I would be very surprised if the exact same neural pathways were utilized each time any particular topic is discussed. If one reduces acceptable explanations to ONLY physical evidence, there is NO physical evidence that software (or mind) exists. You can measure voltages but you cannot even determine from that whether the cells under examination contain data or code. Worse, you cannot infer any meaning from the measurements as to the information content.