At 17:58 24/07/2012, Pete wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, Ed Weick wrote:
> We all need our gods because we exist in an insecure place, somewhere
> between birth and death (what comes before, what comes after?),
> between the infinitesimal and the infinite, and between humanity and
> brutality. We don't know where we are and have always needed a god or
> gods to guide and protect us.
> > Ed
[PV] I dont know, I rather think we would all be better off if we would
stand up to the challenge of learnig to be comfortable with just
saying "I don't know". I think it's the first step required on the
journey to discovering what is actually going on.
But will we ever know "what is actually going on"? It's only been
comparatively recently that we've realized that 95% of the
mass-energy of the universe is quite unlike anything else we know and
is, at present, completely unknowable. Then, too, as the particle
physicists peel away yet another layer (e.g. the Higgs boson) in
particle accelerators, will we ever get to the end of it?
To me, the biggest mystery of all is that, whether we believe in a
God-created universe or, simply, in one as-is or, at creation and
shortly thereafter, as-was (when we're talking of Higgs' and other
particles) then how come that we, a by-product of it, are actually
asking questions that are far more incisive and curious than anything
that might have been selected for mere daily survival by the normal
process of evolution.
Keith
Keith Hudson, Saltford, England http://allisstatus.wordpress.com
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