What is Love?

Well, I don't know where my brain was when I started this thread. We are more than animals and we are more than chemistry. I am quite familiar with evolution and it's history. You need to read DARWIN'S BLACK BOX by Michael J. Behe if you want a more balanced picture. I have a BS in Biology and a MS in Paleontology plus 20 years professional experience and I can tell you that science has yet to eliminate the need for a designer. Love is more than chemistry.

How could science possibly eliminate something that's impossible to put through the scientific method? Intelligent design and irreducible complexity are religious at their roots and therefore are not credible or balanced.

Irreducible complexity is the shot un-answered by evolution. Evolutionist just wave there hand over it and say it will be solved someday. If you want to invoke religious roots, then anything that can't be criticized, without you getting labeled as a religious fanatic, is it's self not science but dogma. The historical perspective tells the tale. Huxley and Spencer weren't all that wild about the evidence backing Darwin's theory. No mechanism (no science of genetics yet) and lot's of gaps in the fossil record. No one knew what went on inside the cell (Darwin's Black Box). But they seized upon it as a way of eliminating God from the equation. The theory swept the world as a anti-religious dogma, not on it's scientific merits. As a scientist, I cannot rule out some form of evolution altogether, but we pretty much know what happens inside a cell these days, and the case for design is so strong you have people like Fred Hoyle bringing in cells from outer space. And unless you think Hoyle was some kind of religious nut, he rejected the Big Band (for a solid state universe) because he felt the Big Bang implied a creator.

I guess I might as well jump on the "Scientific Method" while we are here. A myth. There is no evidence that Sir Francis Bacon, who introduced it, actually use it. In real science (as in art) the creative act is supreme. When (and if) Newton saw the apple come whipping down off the tree, he didn't discover gravity. He did ask a very creative question however. He mused whether the force that pulled the apple down off the tree also held the moon in place around the earth. No "method" led up to that question. That's the way true scientific breakthroughs occur.

Hmm, I try to add a wall of text definition, and error, I'm assuming a text limit? T_T Love is a chemical reaction, as are all things in this world, including our personality, and sense of self. Though it's more complex than just that, I give up on trying to write out another definition. If anyone is interested in my personal definition maybe I can send it with a PM, add me.

I think we're taking this too far off topic, and perhaps should start a different forum thread to talk about creationism and all that other stuff. As for my original comment, I was half-joking. Truly, I have no reference for love and don't know if I'm capable.

Love is the ability to make an idiot of yourself to make someone else feel better. If anime has taught me anything, it's probably this. Being serious for a moment, love isn't really, well. It's more of a moment than a feeling or emotion. It's a word you use, and that's about it. It's the action of wanting to be with a person in one exact moment, or at least. That's just what I think. People tend to get boring and sappy when they're telling each other how much they share love ever couple of minutes and then break up a week later.

I'm not sure why some people get that privilege of being together for so long, because there are cases of people like that. I think people just fall too easily. And yes the whole "Oh your a wonderful person and so beautiful and special" kinda stuff get's really boring after a while, I would know. I never been in love, just puppy love, and thank goodness I have the ability to recognize when something is just a fantasy and the other person is just lost in theirs. Next time I meet someone, I want it to be realistic yet romantic unlike my ex who never really did make anything for me.