The Difference of Man and the Difference it Makes (Humans)

by John Clinch , Wednesday, July 08, 2009, 17:25 (5618 days ago) @ George Jelliss

George said: "No No. That's just the sort of thinking I was trying to avoid. The evolution of consciousness provides a way in which the previously unconscious universe becomes in part aware of the universe as a whole, and can begin to come to some understanding of what it is, how it works, and how it can evolve, or be consciously changed, in the future." - But I understood your point completely. We, our brains, are the only example we know of by which the Universe may become conscious in any meaningful sense. I wasn't suggesting that a theistic response to that is required or even merited. I was simply suggesting that theism is one possible response to that, albeit one I personally cannot subscribe to - and, plainly, neither can you. Where I suspect we may differ is my positioning of the Universe within a metaphysical framework, whatever it may be, hence my utterly untestable and probably incoherent metaphysical ramblings! - I'm with you on the science but, implicitly, I accept that science doesn't make the unknowable false - it, being limited to the material, merely keeps it unknowable.