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Originally Posted by Antithesis
Very much appreciate your contributions to these threads photon. I guess I was more searching to say, "I find the possibility of all of this being a random accident troubling" (like ... basically Thor's posted image), rather than, "I find the belief or statement that everything is a random accident is troubling ..."
I guess in a way, to me, when you keep asking the 'up one level' questions ... it starts becoming unanswerable or "filled with holes" on each side. I guess you could always go with cognito ergo sum and leave it there ... takes a lot off the mind!
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I'm far from a reliable opinion on this, but with my broad obsession of reading science blogs on various fields, I get a feeling that something like the multiverse theory and what Photon touched on that our known galaxy is a drop of water in infinate drops of water might be where we are headed in regards to making some sense of these things.
Its postulated that in our particular galaxy the conditions are exactly as they are because in other multiverses there are infinate possibilities as regards to laws of physics. So even though our universe might seem to some to be 'finely tuned' to allow life to exist, its only one of infinate others where they would be hostile to such life.
Remember our planet, solar system and universe are not friendly to life, but because of the vastness of our galaxy we can even imagine millions of planets with life, even moons.
To me a creator would have made a completely different galaxy than the one we live in, its very illogical and messy to suggest its all created for our glory.
But for me, I'm often asked by religious friends how I can live without the inspiration of God, and I'm equally curious as to why they don't see the massive wonderment of physics, biology, chemistry and all the amazing questions we are trying to tackle.
I get goosebumps talking with my friend about our shared passion, study of mind. The depths to which wonder exists in that search for knowledge is simply underappreciated and unkown to so much of our world.
That to me is sad, and my hope is more that instead of defeating religion we focus on educating and inspiring more people into science because ultimately its one of the most rewarding things in my life and for those close to me who also share this passion its constanly changing, exciting and endlessly challenging my everyday beliefs and preconceptions of everything.