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The Mystery of Existence: Where did natural environments and complex organisms came from? What is the origin of life ? Part 2 with Richard Dawkins, Jessica Frazier, Silvia Jonas, Richard Swinburne and Jack Symes

Unbelievable?

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The God Hypothesis: What Is Pain For?

I was considering the animals before we are human. Just like Richard Dork has done. I can't say something about animal suffering. The cleverer an animal is, the less pain it should need in order to put it off doing the act again. It could be that although mice have smaller brains than us, it could be that actually they feel more pain. We shall never know, but at least that's an or counter argument. And he's also right that there's a difference between the, when you stick the pin in the response and the pain. When you ask the question, what is pain for? Pain is a warning to the animal. Whatever you've just done is

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