The issue of chance... (My own introduction) (Evolution)

by Matt S. , Tuesday, June 02, 2009, 20:17 (5451 days ago) @ Matt S.

Sorry, forgot this part. - I'm 29 and was one of those guys that switched majors 10 times before finding something that fit. Presently I'm an information systems major who will (luck permitting) begin graduate studies in computer science next year. Irony: It's what I wanted to do in high school but discounted myself as unable to learn math. - I came to agnosticism after studying Godel's incompleteness theorems, though I would still call myself an atheist by definition: I may claim that we can't know whether or not a creator exists, but I still don't believe in him--therefore I qualify as an atheist. - My personal views on the cosmos will seem very post-modern and nihilistic to most people. I don't think that there is anything intrinsically special about humanity or life--there's 10,000 other suns like our own in our galaxy by itself, and more galaxies than we can count. (New findings now suggest that earth-like planets may also exist around smaller, cooler stars.) I think that humanity's greatest achievement is in the creation of value. If anything is godlike it is man's ability to create meaning for things that never had such value before.