All the more reason for you to answer my questions and add your worth to the discussion. To say that you have the answers, but it’s beneath your dignity to educate me, only serves to alienate “the impoverished” from your position. Do you really want to convince me you’re right, or do you only respond because you like to mock me?

Physics has no purpose.

oh, martin, u r another horatio, with an impoverished philosophy.

u should read susskind, the father of string theory, on The Landscape.

His book is an intro to the theory of darwinian evolution of universes.

=)

The idea that biology has no purpose save that which intelligent life imputes to it is a self-contradiction, since intelligent life is part of biology.

Unless, of course, you see things from a theist perspective; and if you do, then that perspective also implies purpose.

for example, in the behavioral dimension of evolution, there is strong negative selection for homosexuality in some cultures.

still, homosexuality exists, arguing for the genetic or epigenetic component.

But what if it doesn’t work? What if the mutation kills the mutant, and/or prevents it from passing that mutation to a new generation? This is the whole basis for the theory of evolution – the fittest survive, and the failures die out.

If you are a theist, then there is some purpose in biological principles. There are no errors in biology… nature can be what we want it to be… Labels are the beginning of the bullshit that has thrust us into all of the problems humans have created for themselves. I’m a jew, muslim, christian…blah, blah, blah…

It seems to me that you’re the one injecting subjectivity into the discussion, by trying to overcompensate against what you perceive as theism through some rather rigid relativism.

Shouldn’t science be objective instead of relativistic? Whatever happened to the scientific method?