"However, positing God answers a difficult question that other accounts don’t: namely, why are there regularities as opposed to irregularities? To posit nothing, or pure, random chance, is modest but doesn’t do a good job of explaining: random chance doesn’t explain the five royal flushes. To posit some mindless explanation that just happened, coincidentally, to give us something as complex and consistent as a regularity does a good job of explaining but isn’t really modest..."
(quote from the article).
Here goes:
Well, I'm bending my mind in all the directions required, in order to imagine, visualize, and find some logic behind it all. I read the article up to the part I quoted at the beginning here, and then I just had to stop and sit down, and now, here are my thoughts: I would like to start by requesting a definition of "regularity," and "irregularity," as terms, and as they are, specifically, being used here. Because, to me, it seems that, when I read the premise, and take note of all these "regularities" which the author has listed, that the time-frame, in which any "repetitive something" has been observed by us, cannot have been too long, until the next "regularity" of the same kind takes place, for us to know about it. What about something that is some kind of little "regularity," which only happens once in a 1000, or in 10,000 years, and only for one second, in one weird and far away location of the universe? How about once in a million years? How can we even declare a phenomena as "regular," or "irregular" from our singular point of view? We know what we call the laws of physics, but we also are witness to ever more phenomena, as far as I can see, with plenty of things not always explained, as we are watching and, expanding our reach into our solar system. I think, we haven't been able to watch long enough to declare something a certain "Regularity," or a certain "Irregularity." Everything is relative. Remember that? In the time-frame of the universe, our little life-span has a lot to do, with our capacities, and limitations, to observe. Unless there was continuous record-keeping, of said "regularity," over a very long time, it might not be identifiable as such, for us. We can call something an "irregularity," but, in my mind that is not a proven fact, only an interpretation. We might be surrounded by plenty of "regularities" which are, yet, beyond our understanding. As are, today, many things in the universe. With all we know today, we cannot properly explain every single thing about the universe. But to say this is prof that "god" exists? I don't find myself convinced of the existence of any god, having read the article, so far. I read it with an open mind, and I still don't feel the desire, or the need, to accredit anything to a "god". If a "god" existed, I'd have a thing or two to say to him....lol.
Now, here's my position on this, for what it's worth:
'Mother Earth' is my "goddess," if you want to use that sort of term. I never do. At the moment, still, without her, we are nothing. I find that "divine," in a simple, logical, and acceptable way. Plus, the one thing that seems most "divine" to me, is that tiny spark of life, which awakens in millions of little cells, meant for all kinds of great things, like elephants, and dolphins, and birds, and trees, and us. Where does that spark come from? People say from "god." That's the one i wonder about. Why do we, automatically, file away all things unexplained under "god?" It looks like a limited, and easy, way out. I really want to know where the spark comes from. It's the same size, in every living thing. And that, i don't just believe that, I know it, instinctively. The story of life and evolution is in all of us, in our cells, our DNA... How amazing is that? What do i need a church for? If I have the "divine" forest, and the mountains, and the oceans, filled with creatures, to behold, in their unique beauty, covered by the sky with the stars above... Here, in our lil' corner of the universe.
(Perhaps we are just here, to simply be here, and not so incredibly special, or important, as we think we are?) :)
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