Saturday, August 13, 2011
Atheist here, got a little present for the Christians but I imagine they won't even open it.?
Thing is, although I'm an atheist, I kinda believe in intellectual honesty. So, I've got this thing that bugs me about atheism. Here it is. Atheism is sort of related to scientific materialism. Reductionism, I guess it's called. This, if I'm not mistaken, is the belief that everything has a cause. But choice, to exist, by definition, can't be the result of a cause. This means it's outside science and therefore 'magic'. Now, you can say 'but quantum physics says that results are random.' yes,but that's only b/c the scientists haven't figured out what causes the results. It's a filler until they make that too, a game of cause and effect. But maybe we only SEEM to have choice. Ok. But we definitely have awareness. Our meat puppet bodies run by our meat computer brains, don't really need awareness to do everything they'd need to do to survive. So either microbes are aware, which would obviously be either magic or some seriously strange 'universe is aware' thing or there's some 'critical m' of complexity where we suddenly are aware. This too, is either magic or some seriously strange 'universe is aware' thing. And if this is the case with magic, then maybe it's the case with choice. And if we have awareness and choice, I submit that this seems like a strong case for a designer, but only a designer that wants us to be aware and to choose. This designer still doesn't deserve to be worshipped, not that even an omnipotent benevolence would deserve to be worshipped. So anyway, gentleman jack was asking about evidence for a creator. This is the best I could come up with to show that maybe agnosticism isn't all that crazy.
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