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

by David Turell @, Thursday, January 21, 2016, 19:53 (2990 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: So let me get this right (please correct where necessary). In order to fulfil his purpose to produce humans, your God had to create billions of solar systems containing trillions of stars, millions of which had to blow themselves up (by chance) or be blown up (by God) so that the critical elements could form (by chance) or be created (by God) and travel higgledy-piggledy to Earth (by chance) or be directed to Earth (by God). (Or perhaps he programmed the millions of explosions and the journey to Earth of the critical elements.) Once they had arrived, God put them together to make the first cells, which he preprogrammed with the weaverbird's nest and every other innovation, lifestyle and natural wonder extant and extinct, so that life could continue until humans evolved (though they are so “different” that he may have created them separately). And humans are here, so the above must be right.-That is how I view it!
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> dhw: Yes, my equally unlikely “bottom-up” panpsychist hypothesis, in which consciousness begins by chance through interaction between energy and matter, and from then on engineers its own self-designing evolution through experience and cooperation. Plenty of questions here too, but at least not as complicated as the supernovanovel narrated above.-This is just chance all over again. Accept it and don't accept it as you dance back and forth. Still only two choices.


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