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Originally Posted by Antithesis
What would that make me, then photon? Weak Atheist? Honestly curious.
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*shakes magic 8 ball*
What you describe sounds like Deism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deism
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Originally Posted by Antithesis
I find the idea that all of existence could be just some sort of random accident to be somewhat disquieting; if there is some type of creator, then that is exactly what I think "God" is ... created and sat back.
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I think it's a bit premature to really be able to evaluate the whole "random accident" thing. While everyone talks about the big bang and how the universe started, really the big bang doesn't cover the initial conditions of the universe, or how those initial conditions came to be. Science's best answer to the question of what "caused" (if such a word even applies) the universe is "Unknown at this time".
So really since science doesn't have a good answer for the process or the bigger picture, to be disquieted by characterizing it as a random accident is premature; wait until they call it a random accident first
For example, if we discovered that there was a manifold of many (or infinite) universes then finding ourselves in this universe is no more miraculous than a the water in a puddle marveling at how the hole it finds itself in is so perfectly shaped for it.