If your internal organs have a purpose, God exists.

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In short, our internal organs have no aims or goals associated with them unless God exists. There is no such thing as having a better brain, better heart, etc. 
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Ok, and?
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Is it better to have a brain with Alzheimer's or one without?
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Better in what way?
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Trick question because any basis of comparison involves imagined goals for what a better brain is.

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There is simply no fact of the matter on whether it's better to have a brain with Alzheimer's or one without 

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Ok, and?
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There is no fact of the matter on whether it's better to have a heart with clogged arteries rather than not.
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There is no fact of the matter on whether it's better to have a heart with clogged arteries rather than not.
There could be 'FOTM' if 'better' was defined properly.    If you answer 'better in what way' (eg 'provides more blood flow') you do get a FoTM.

Note for if 'better' means 'morally better' that doesn't work because morality isn't a thing!  (maybe :)




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Ok. What's the end game here? What's the conclusion with this line of conversation?
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Well each statement seems incorrect. It doesn't seem like there's no fact of the matter on whether it's better to have a heart with clogged arteries or not. Some of this has to do with the architecture of the heart itself. You can infer what role each part has. So I'm finding it interesting how, if God doesn't exist, our internal organs have an imagined purpose and the implications of that


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@Fallaneze
Goal is simply the wrong word. Evolution and internal organs have a logical consequence not a goal.
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Heart failure has a logical consequence. So does normal heart activity.
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Yes but only humans attach judgements like "good" or "bad" to such consequences.
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Well each statement seems incorrect. It doesn't seem like there's no fact of the matter on whether it's better to have a heart with clogged arteries or not. Some of this has to do with the architecture of the heart itself. You can infer what role each part has. So I'm finding it interesting how, if God doesn't exist, our internal organs have an imagined purpose and the implications of that
All purposes ever known by man were created by man. I challenge you to show me any purpose set by a god.

Nor does God existing doesn't grant them a purpose anyway. You can only guess at what God's purpose is. Maybe God designed the universe with the purpose of generating gold via supernovae and humans are just an irrelevant byproduct of this process. Like organic gunk that accumulates in the ice machine that is the universe.

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Like organic gunk that accumulates in the ice machine that is the universe.
I adore this quote.