Originally Posted by
Phoenyx
I seldom get involved in discussions involving religion because people tend to believe that circular arguments are proof they are right all the time. However, there are a few people who are more open minded. As a Pantheist who believes that everything is God, no one I know would argue that God exists under this definition, but they -have- pointed out that this is not how they define God, so for -them- God doesn't exist because of how they define God. This subject of whether God exists and perhaps more importantly, how we define God, has been one I've found to be interesting but as it's significantly off the subject of this thread, I decided to make this new thread and put my response here.
Originally Posted by
Cypress
There very well may be a higher organizing principle underlying the universe. But since we are basically
just souped-up chimpanzees, we might not have the cognitive capacity to fully comprehend it.
To me, the most important lingering unanswered questions are these:
Where did the physical laws of the universe come from? Prior to the big bang, nothing presumably existed, and nor did physics exist.
Why are there physical constants, and why do they take the values they do? Seemingly arbitrary numerical values which cannot be derived from first principles.
Why are the natural laws, the physical constants, and the geometry of the cosmos so finely-tuned in such a mathematically-improbable way to allow the development of complexity, life, and even conciousness?
Originally Posted by
BidenPresident
And he was wrong.
As you have always been inaccurate about life evolving in plain sight. But you have reasonable doubt saving your character's wannabe intellectual soul is greater than your instinctive sole limited to naturally adapting to the moment here.
Every brain born has a lifetime conflict with ancestral displacement and intellectual social position within the population present. Why, life is a compounding connection between inception, conception, death, extinction life doesn't exceed what exists now.
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