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sockiescat · 19-08-2006, 03:39 PM

Greywolf "Michael Gray" wrote in message
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On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:33:50 -0400, "Samuel W. Heywood"
wrote:
- Refer:
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Chris H. Fleming wrote:

Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Tough Tonto wrote:

Last night just before bed, I looked out over my deck, and there
over the middle of it, was the most magnificent spider web ever
devised, shining in the spotlight. This wonder appeared perfectly
circular and was about the size--and very much resembled-- a
33 rpm phono record, with very precisely placed circular strands
close together with perfect symmetry. I still am not sure how
this little master builder anchored this creation; must've been the
hedge
on one side and the chimney on the other, and maybe the deck; but
all this stuff was a good ways off, and the masterpiece was hanging
a good 8 feet over the deck. Another amazing thing is that we had
a heavy rainstorm not 3 hours earlier, so this beauty was designed
and
built in less than 3 hours. So here we have a creature, with a brain
maybe
the size of a grain of sand, and likely less than a year old,
building
something any civil engineer would show with great pride. I got up to
pee around 3 a.m., looked out, and it was already gone.

Wonderful, but what does a nice spider web have to do with
some people saying "there's no God"? Do you think spiders somehow
resemble little gods?

He is making the point that spiders are superbly intelligent
designers, despite their very tiny brains.

... so the gods have tiny brains?

I just knew that some very smart people would draw that conclusion.

I just knew that one very stupid person would not answer the question.

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Hmmmm. It *is* amazing to see nature at work. In the case of a spider and
it's web: seems pretty 'natural' to me. But then, some people would see the
'miracle' of the construction of a spider-web as proof that Jesus walked on

creation of a spiders web or people having surgery and being brought back from deaths
door there are always those that believe and those that dont in the existence of god or
a holy being and its up to them what their beliefs are.
i think one of the other points being made about the spiders web is a lot of times
people are in such a rush that they dont know how to slow own and enjoy what is
around them in life.
like the spider and its web for example how many people would really take the time to
watch a spider spinning a web or to stop and see how beautiful it is.
what about taking a look at hore frost or dew on trees or beautiful flowers really close up
or sitting in a park or anywhere else really watching nature or things around them.
whether there is a god or not is what people are focusing on but what about the other
side of things like when is the last time that u slowed down and really took a look at
things around u not in general but really in depth

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cyaaaaaa, sockiescat.