Cosmology: Latest theories of everything (Introduction)

by dhw, Friday, July 28, 2017, 11:23 (2675 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: To sum it up: there are two possibilities (I’ll ignore my own panpsychist alternative). 1. The complexities of life came about through an unconscious (natural) process of combining atoms. But even we highly intelligent humans are not yet able to understand or reproduce this process, and if we could, that would be the result of genius-scale intelligence and not of unconscious natural processes. Belief in the creative genius of unconsciousness requires faith. 2. The complexities of life came about through a conscious mind combining atoms. But belief in an unseen, sourceless conscious mind so vast and powerful that it can create a universe etc. etc. (I needn’t preach to an atheist) requires faith.
I see both possibilities as requiring irrational faith. That is why I remain an agnostic.

DAVID: Is there a possibility of rational faith and if so how would you achieve it?

Ah, you are becoming as pedantic as I am! This was simply a response to reblak’s:
“I don’t see any rational alternative.”
What I was trying to point out was that his own theory requires faith, which is irrational.