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Originally Posted by maskedmelon
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What is true of the part is not necessarily true of the whole just as what is true of the whole is not necessarily true of the part.
The difference between man and nature is man's sentience and his ability to reason. If nature also possesses those qualities then it is either malevolent or impotent.
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If man's seperation from nature is the ability to reason and perceive, then where did these abilities derive from? It's not like one day nature said "ok evolutionary process the next cycle will be a mouse and we will give it the ability of perception and reason." These traits must have been present within the most basic micro-organism from the start in order for them to develop over millions of years. Environmental Adaptation wouldn't have caused that. If these traits did exist from the smallest microbe then all activity engaged by man is a natural occurrence and is working as intended by nature. What about plant life? Seems like it got dicked in the ability to perceive and reason.
Option 1. Man evolved from nature which from its earliest microbe had the ability to perceive and reason in an infantile capacity unidentifiable by science, and all of "Man's" activity is Natural and coincides with Nature's intent.
Option 2. Man didn't evolve from nature but was granted the ability of perception and reason by a creator. Activity engaged by man is seperate from Nature and may or may not be beneficial to nature depending on the free will and ambitions "Man" possesses.