Post by Magnet Man on Mar 16, 2006 17:28:31 GMT -5
Or Random evolutionary event? Or Divine Design?
Random event is the accepted scientific theory and I can buy into that – but only up to a point. I believe that the current Universe began in a singularity as the result of the compression of a previous Universe. This initiated the Big Bang some 20 billion years ago. I can see how, some seventeen billion years later. a chance mix of amino acids in a primeval soup on an environmentally benign planet situated on the edge of a spiral galaxy could randomly produce a protein recipe that gradually evolved into cellular growth and eventually organic life. If human intelligence had remained on the same basic level as all other organic life – with procreation and endless consumption the be-all and end-all of existence, I would not question random event. But - somewhere between 6 and 3 million years ago, something extra-sensory happened to a single specie among 2 billion others. That happening produced an intelligence that was self-aware, able to be an independent witness to the rest of Nature. Why? Why would Nature produce a supernatural being with the potential to exterminate all Her other creations? Such an awesome cosmic event, with such infinite implications, cannot simply be analytically explained away by another random event, due to environmental variation or some such.. I am sorry, much as I revere science, that explanation leaves me curiously unsatisfied. I can buy random event as a small ingredient in evolution, mainly because it rids us of a boringly predictable outcome via the surprises it produces – but pure randomness could only produce random moments of clarity and mainly chaos, not the ordered universe I see.
This cosmic puzzle has made many of us take a serious look to Alien intervention, Personally I have ruled out Aliens as the origin of our supernatural intelligence – because even if they did intervene, that does not answer the root question. If aliens had anything to do with it, then how did they come by their own intelligence?
So I am left with Divine Design. I have been wrestling with that one ever since I was nine years old. Over the years I have come up with a private theory on God and why I think he was the culprit that had us in mind all along. That theory has nothing in common with any mythology or any religion. I’d like to bounce it against “intelligent” minds. Maybe some of you have your own origination explanations. Jokes are okay – the tarot shows an aspect of God as a fool – especially when it comes into prying into the unknowable - but make sure yours are hilariously “intelligent”.
Random event is the accepted scientific theory and I can buy into that – but only up to a point. I believe that the current Universe began in a singularity as the result of the compression of a previous Universe. This initiated the Big Bang some 20 billion years ago. I can see how, some seventeen billion years later. a chance mix of amino acids in a primeval soup on an environmentally benign planet situated on the edge of a spiral galaxy could randomly produce a protein recipe that gradually evolved into cellular growth and eventually organic life. If human intelligence had remained on the same basic level as all other organic life – with procreation and endless consumption the be-all and end-all of existence, I would not question random event. But - somewhere between 6 and 3 million years ago, something extra-sensory happened to a single specie among 2 billion others. That happening produced an intelligence that was self-aware, able to be an independent witness to the rest of Nature. Why? Why would Nature produce a supernatural being with the potential to exterminate all Her other creations? Such an awesome cosmic event, with such infinite implications, cannot simply be analytically explained away by another random event, due to environmental variation or some such.. I am sorry, much as I revere science, that explanation leaves me curiously unsatisfied. I can buy random event as a small ingredient in evolution, mainly because it rids us of a boringly predictable outcome via the surprises it produces – but pure randomness could only produce random moments of clarity and mainly chaos, not the ordered universe I see.
This cosmic puzzle has made many of us take a serious look to Alien intervention, Personally I have ruled out Aliens as the origin of our supernatural intelligence – because even if they did intervene, that does not answer the root question. If aliens had anything to do with it, then how did they come by their own intelligence?
So I am left with Divine Design. I have been wrestling with that one ever since I was nine years old. Over the years I have come up with a private theory on God and why I think he was the culprit that had us in mind all along. That theory has nothing in common with any mythology or any religion. I’d like to bounce it against “intelligent” minds. Maybe some of you have your own origination explanations. Jokes are okay – the tarot shows an aspect of God as a fool – especially when it comes into prying into the unknowable - but make sure yours are hilariously “intelligent”.
