I'll add something else to that. I'm into astronomy and can spend all night staring at distant galaxies through my telescope and wondering whether there is life out there. Nature is awesome and I have a deep sense of wonder about it's mysteries and functions. The more you know about life, the more amazing it gets. And the more precious. I have the same sense of wonder of anybody else who ever lived. It's that that makes me want to learn more, it's just the sort of answers we are prepared to accept around here are different.
For me to think that there must be some sort of creator behind it takes something away from it. That it, and we, are self propelled through a giant universe of unknown wonders is enough on its own without inventing reasons for it to be *more* special. The old ways of looking at the world are great fun, mainly to see how other civilisations have seen their place compared to ours. But there comes a time when you have to ditch the superstitions in place of the cold hard reality. Douglas Adams put it best: "It's enough to know that a garden is beautiful without thinking there are fairies at the bottom of it as well" Of course, if god sticks his head through the clouds next week and tells us where we went wrong, we'll all be happy! ---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote: LOL, good choice of pictures. I like the one of me particularly. But really, there's nothing here that had a designer. The nebula is beautiful but it's just a cloud of gas lit from inside by the stars within. It's actually visible to the naked eye in the constellation of Orion. Quite amazing to think of stars forming out of swirling gas and out of that gas will form planets, they are made of denser material than the hydrogen of most stars. This dense stuff came from stars exploding when they collapse at the end of their life, the pressures and heat force subatomic particles together to make everything we are made of. Very well understood. No god required. Evolution is also well understood, no need to point out the errors of the "intelligent design" crowd eh? ---In [email protected], <awoelflebater@...> wrote: ---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote: "“Help comes only from the Unified Field,” - Do you have any idea how creepy this sounds? I hope there aren't any genuine scholars reading this, they'd be edging towards the door by now... When you say unified field you mean god. Why not just admit it? The idea that there is a vast intelligence behind nature is ridiculous. It's a belief without evidence. It also seems to be completely unnecessary as there isn't anything that can't be explained without it. These aren't the hallmarks of a great theory. I really have to disagree here, take a look. This is evidence enough for me...
