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Daedelus76
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“Why is there something rather than nothing?” This question is potentially meaningless or empty, don’t you think? I guess it points to God in some peoples minds, but it doesn’t necessarily reveal anything about God directly. Maybe I am more of a logical positivist than I assume. I definitely am more of a Pragmatist or even postmodernist.
I admit, there’s a certain elegance to saying that God is the origin of it all, but again, this tells us little or nothing about God. I don’t necessarily have anything against theism per say, but I do have something against the anthropocentric worldview it portrays. I don’t think we live in a universe with humans as the apotheosis of creation. From our POV, of course maybe this is the case, but is that the “reality”? Who knows.
youtube.com/watch?v=5TEdJZVhtOY
Alan Watts had a good answer to the question of wheather we were created by a God like an artifact created by an engineer, or wheather we are just random chance byproducts. Both miss a third possibility: intelligence is in the universe, and something doesn’t come out of nothing, so human beings, as intelligent creatures emerge from what already exists. In process philosophy, this is called prehension. Definitely, this refutes the idea that humans are mere accidents, though it doesn’t necessarily support the kind of naive theism that some might hold on to.
I admit, there’s a certain elegance to saying that God is the origin of it all, but again, this tells us little or nothing about God. I don’t necessarily have anything against theism per say, but I do have something against the anthropocentric worldview it portrays. I don’t think we live in a universe with humans as the apotheosis of creation. From our POV, of course maybe this is the case, but is that the “reality”? Who knows.
youtube.com/watch?v=5TEdJZVhtOY
Alan Watts had a good answer to the question of wheather we were created by a God like an artifact created by an engineer, or wheather we are just random chance byproducts. Both miss a third possibility: intelligence is in the universe, and something doesn’t come out of nothing, so human beings, as intelligent creatures emerge from what already exists. In process philosophy, this is called prehension. Definitely, this refutes the idea that humans are mere accidents, though it doesn’t necessarily support the kind of naive theism that some might hold on to.