Benjamin Cain
May 26, 2023

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I don't say that we're "superior" to nature, or at least certainly not that we're superior in all respects. That would be crazy. On the contrary, the point of pantheism is that nature's creativity is supreme (divine).

But that doesn't mean that nature creates in the same way that people do, with intelligence. On the contrary, the point of Darwinism is that nature creates dumbly, by trial and error. It's just that nature has such astronomically large spaces and timescales to work with, that amazing orders emerge by these unintelligent, impersonal, unplanned, amoral means.

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Benjamin Cain
Benjamin Cain

Written by Benjamin Cain

Ph.D. in philosophy / Knowledge condemns. Art redeems. / https://benjamincain.substack.com / https://ko-fi.com/benjamincain / benjamincain8@gmailDOTcom

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