Friday, March 02, 2007
Nature is Mysterious
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Can you imagine 800 million godless people? If so, can you imagine what might be their priorities? Let me be very clear about this: you have 800 million people who know that there is no god. What follows from that? It is a question worth considering.
It seems to me that in such a case Humanity has taken a sudden jump quite uncharasteristic in terms of Darwin's Theory. Obviously (in this case) there has been a catastrophic event in the General Human Process: something is amiss. There has been some sort of a catastrophe. Furthermore, the said catastrophe can not be sociological. There are no sociological catastrophes in the absense of physical catastrophes. Yet here is a catastrophe. What was the trigger? There must be a trigger.
The discovery of Jesus' bones (tap) might qualify, which is why I raise the question. But the sequence seems to be circular, and 'circular events' are illogical, therefore implausible: Nature would end should She allow circularity: there is no natural circularity, only mathematical circularity. Nature is essentially, at bottom, random, which allows us, You and me, to exist.
Prove me wrong if you can.
Can you imagine 800 million godless people? If so, can you imagine what might be their priorities? Let me be very clear about this: you have 800 million people who know that there is no god. What follows from that? It is a question worth considering.
It seems to me that in such a case Humanity has taken a sudden jump quite uncharasteristic in terms of Darwin's Theory. Obviously (in this case) there has been a catastrophic event in the General Human Process: something is amiss. There has been some sort of a catastrophe. Furthermore, the said catastrophe can not be sociological. There are no sociological catastrophes in the absense of physical catastrophes. Yet here is a catastrophe. What was the trigger? There must be a trigger.
The discovery of Jesus' bones (tap) might qualify, which is why I raise the question. But the sequence seems to be circular, and 'circular events' are illogical, therefore implausible: Nature would end should She allow circularity: there is no natural circularity, only mathematical circularity. Nature is essentially, at bottom, random, which allows us, You and me, to exist.
Prove me wrong if you can.
