We are all just finite creatures, living to the ripe old age of double digits... We try to believe in ghosts to validate there is something beyond. I have yet to see one though... We go to church, and pray to our gods in hopes that after we die, our immortal soul will live on... Of course with faith, nothing can be proven. We live our lives to the best of our ability with the chance of receiving our heavenly reward. The good die young, as murders die of old age in prisons. We avoid smoking and red meat in the hopes of adding a few more precious years to our limited existence; yet our bodies still break down. How many old, toothless drunks are stumbling around aimlessly; while children's cancer wards are filled? I'm starting to question the validity of compassion and charity. There are no answers in this chaotic world, nor is there a great deal of consolation. What is the point to all of this? By the time we figure that question out, we are already in the ground...
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Brilliant, I agree I may be even more cynical than you on this topic.
The more science unravels the curtains of mystery surrounding the nature of reality and the history of life on this planet the more difficult it is for me to believe in a creator as described in the bible. I concede an intelligence that put things in motion with the big bang perhaps but one who cares and observes our day to day lives and lovingly crafts a place for us to live in after we die, mmmm hard for me to continue to support despite how much I would like to believe.
To be honest life on earth could be quite literally a matter of odds. Given enough time and enough worlds and enough correct conditions, randomness and entropy would be enough to explain it all. And as far as evolution, well you know the story about 10,000 monkeys typing for 10,000 years, it really is very similar to that except the monkeys are doing one page at a time and when a page is right they continue on to new pages not just writing a masterpiece in one shot. That pretty much sums up random mutations that can have negative, none or a positive affect on a lifeform. Insert 4 billion years of chemical reactions on this planet and the surprise would be if nothing interesting ever emerged. Not a miracle because it has.
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