The immensity of the universe (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by dhw, Saturday, September 19, 2015, 13:14 (3352 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

TONY: The average human retains billions upon billions of pieces of information in the form of conscious memory, and this is not even including the unconscious pieces of information. Yet, we boggle at the thought that a mind that could create even a single human would be capable of containing infinitely more pieces of information?-I boggle at the idea of a mind that can encompass thousands of millions of galaxies and zillions of stars which come and go for no apparent purpose (see my post to David), and I wonder if such a mind actually exists. There is no evidence for its existence, other than speculative theory and various books and myths and reported visions (often relating to multiple minds). And I ask how it could have come into existence, because if our own minds are too complex to have evolved from something simpler, and had to be specially designed, surely an even more complex mind would also have had to be designed. We get caught in the web of cause and effect. If we can believe in a supercolossal intelligence that had no origin, our credulity may also stretch so far as to believe in less colossal intelligences that did have an origin, namely a chance combination of materials resulting from an eternal process of energy transmuting itself impersonally into matter. In my case, credulity does not stretch far enough in either direction, but of course I am the fool because one of those two theories must be (approximately) right. Ah, but which one?