Re: Is evolutionary chance impossible?
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 5:58 am
i dont know about "more plausible" but if this "God" did indeed engineer this process and set it in motion then wouldn't "He" be responsible for this sort of thing?craigdressler wrote: Isn't the idea of a divine designer, God, who engineered this process and set it in motion much more plausible?
http://healthmad.com/conditions-and-dis ... the-world/
or would "He" be accountable for this sort of thing?
Conquistador of Mexico
Zulu and the Navaho
The Belgians in the Congo
Plantation in Virginia, the Raj in British India
The deadline in South Africa
The story of El Salvador, the silence of Hiroshima
Destruction of Cambodia?
or any uncountable number of absurdities and atrocities
this seems to me to be the unworkability of the "traditional" "literalist" "orthodox" "external" kinda "God"
if you changed your definition of "God" to mean "that which everything and everyone is a manifestation of" then at least "God" could get of the hook by saying "hey i did all that shit to myself after all"
still no consolation if you just suffered one of "life's little surprises"
i suppose i'm getting at the "definition of god" question.
i tend to read it all buddhism, hinduism, xtianity, islam, atheism, george carlin etc etc etc and keep whatever helps and makes sense and cross references well and carry on pondering while not being too hasty to grip too tightly to any one system and i shun literalism (reading religious texts as if they were history) like the plague.
i find more infinity and wonder all around me most days than most people seem to be prepared to even admit to as a possibility, and when i cant sense that beauty it is none the less there/here, and so is all the bullshit.
i mostly just enjoy stuff and get angry occasionally at the absurd predicament we find ourselves in under the rulership of vampires and fools.