Personally... I think "God did it" is the too easy answer to it. Where's the journey?
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Originally Posted by genuinegirly
I fail to see the disconnect between science and religion.
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Science requires tangible evidence. Faith does not. If you search for proof to your faith, you don't have faith, you just want to be right. I am not implying this towards you, however.
@ Levite:
You are the coolest religious guy, ever.
//soapbox
I look at the universe and I see an evolution of action/reaction. First the fundamental laws of the universe come into play setting these ground rules. Then The galaxies form, leading to stars and finally the planets. Some planets, like Earth, have/get the necessary chemicals to form complex molecules which can form all new and more complex reactions, still based off of the ground rules. These molecules grow in complexity till we have stimulus/action occurrences, even more complex and you get fully functioning organisms that can change their actions based on stimulus. Animals gain complexity for a variety of reasons and group order forms, with hierarchies, etc etc. To make this short: today we have "Human." Humans have this remarkably sophisticated stimulus/action/reaction processing system called the brain. Seating within the intricate physics/chemistry of the brain is consciousness.
I look at consciousness as another form of this progression of action/reaction. I believe it (consciousness) was there the entire time. If you take a piece of chalk and twist it will break according to a set of very precise laws. We model them with equations- tools of our conscious mind. Yet the chalk just reacts, there is no thought, yet we must think about how that chalk will break.
I had an experience that shaped me and still is one of the foundations of my philosophy. There isn't any specific being, it isn't loving, it doesn't care, it doesn't judge, it doesn't have to think, it just
is. We all are connected within it, we are all connected to each other and everything. All we do to strengthen ourselves to it is to make positive connection with the universe.
What I really enjoy musing is if this consciousness of the universe and ourselves keeps evolving, what lies ahead? Yes I am naive, and I am idealistic, but... if it is a dream it is a good dream to me, one that forces me to look at everything.