Have you ever heard someone say that “the body is a machine”? I sat and pondered this today from the view point of a Christian and an atheist. This phrase is usually evoked by non-believers as a way to demean or undermine exactly what humans are, but what I think is funny is when you look up the definition in a dictionary or encyclopedia:
an apparatus consisting of interrelated parts with separate functions, used in the performance of some kind of work: a sewing machine.
a person or thing that acts in a mechanical or automatic manner. Routine work had turned her into a machine.
- http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/machine.
There are several issues when you look at it by definition:
- First Are humans really just a machine that does useful work? Machines work in a known and predictable way otherwise they would not be a very useful tool. Humans on the other hand have free will to be useful/useless, create/destroy, think/feel, and love/hate.
- Second – is who made the machine? Last time I checked machines don’t make them selves from nothing or dirt and water. Even though we are getting to the point where machines will make other machines a human still had to make the first one (but that is a entirely different and nauseating subject).
Its interesting that we think we are so smart, and our technology is so advanced, but in just the first two years of life a baby will grow from not knowing anything to teaching its self how to think and process information, communicate with other people, and even walk! I challenge anyone to format your hard drive and leave your computer running for two years and see if it comes up with its own form of windows that you can use to get on the internet. Any takers…? We have had computers in some form or another since WWII (you know those tattoos on the Jew’s arms? those are IBM computer numbers) and that was over 70 years ago! To imagine that we do not have a computer that can think on its own, or break down simple sentences and create new subroutines to preform requests based on what the sentience means. The closest thing we have to a walking robot is that white Toyota thing that looks totally ridiculous. I mean if a baby can do these things in the first two years of life why haven’t we been able to make a computer do these things in an entire human’s lifetime? Wake up people your self importance is such a laughable joke.
Another thing I like to think about is the DNA Chicken and the Egg question. (Keep in mind this is really simplified) DNA can be thought of as a USB thumb drive that has a program on it — lets say it is your favorite video game and instructions that tell your computer how to run that game. So if you had a thumb drive with your favorite game on it what could you do with it if you do not have a computer? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! it is worthless with out a computer to read and interpret it! The “Simple Cell” (if you can call it “simple”) can be thought of as that computer we are needing to play our video game that resides on our thumb drive. You put the thumb drive into the computer and like magic you are now able to play your game. So my question now is what can you do with just a computer and no programs for it to process? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! is is worthless with out a computer program!
The Chicken or the Egg, DNA or Protein? (dang someone already came up with my phrase!)
http://www.detectingdesign.com/abiogenesis.html
Lets explain how computers came into existence. Someone though hey lets create a device that we know as the “computer” that can do some type of calculations based on some type of changeable state (it would be kind of silly to just come up with the answer to 1+1 all day!) and we call this a “program”. The first computers were based on switches that could be in either the on or off position to form a combination of 1s and 0s. These ones and zeros are then combined to create numbers, and operations on those numbers to preform basic math much like a simple calculator would today. So now that I have given the history in a nutshell my question would be: did they come up with one, and then say “hmmm what could I do with this thingy?”… No They were designed at the same time! It is meaningless to have one with out the other! It would be like the person that first invited the bottle cap (they didn’t always twist off folks!) with out a way to open the dang thing — it would make no sense!
So if someone tells you that the body is a machine ask them — if that is true who designed it? Deny it all you want people, but I guess some people like to think of them selves as machines, while others like to think they are monkeys. Myself on the other hand know I am a divine child of the creator of the universe the God of the Jews – Yahweh (AKA Jesus), and he made me in his image. Unfortunately in this plane of existence we are all just prisoners of the flesh due to the failures of our parents, as so were they failed by their parents on down the line to Adam & Eve at which time we were destined to the curses of this world. We too shall fail our children, but our ultimate goal is to educate them enough that when they pass from the shell of this world through death – unto the birth into the real existence that the most perfect heavenly father will smile upon them and say you have done well in my test — welcome to eternity in paradise, and you will be there watching.
