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Originally Posted by amicus_curiae
Marvin,
Frankly, I would posit a rogue group of aliens as first cause rather than an unseeable spirit.
You see a conundrum which must be considered where I see the unknowable. I’m not going to attempt to know the unknown because that puts me on the path of a crazed Möbius strip when I’d rather live and soak in all of the lively and lovely bubble baths that I can.
As ardently as I adhered to the One True Church, outside of which there is no salvation, I have always been a sensualist first. As often as I confessed my sensual sins, I ran from the confessional to the backseat of my ’68 Mustang to kiss the current lovely girl. Since leaving the Church I only see wickedly comedy and egregious tragedy and realize, much too late!, that sensuality bred such a tremendous affirmation of life.
I’m unrepentant of the pleasures given and gained.
I don’t believe in a consequential Universe. It seems that there are new discoveries daily that defy our most revered certainties and that contribute to the belief of Universal randomness. B does not always follow A and the laws and theories that are held dear on this orb most certainly do not stand on others.
Do you believe in Darwinian evolution? I do. And what I know of evolution is that it can be observed but never, neverpredicted. Evolution follows from mutation and going from dinosaurs to birds is a comical mystery. We can offer hypothetical explanations but cannot even conjecture the smallest mutations that must have occurred.
If there was program it’s buggy as Hades.
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As someone who has spent most of their life working with computer code, I'd be extremely suspicious of anything that
didn't come with bugs! ;p
Yes, I'm an advocate of Darwin theory. But that theory still has a logic to it's function. Guess what a computer program is... yup, logic. And logic can & does embrace randomness*. Anything can theoretically be calculated & predicted - you just need access to all the variables involved... and that's the tricky bit.
*Randomness in computing circles is an interesting side-topic, insomuch as it's (a) very hard to produce a truly random sequence & (b) it's even harder to prove that a given sequence is truly random. Essentially, you're dealing with an infinite string of numbers. Which also means, we have no way to categorically prove that randomness in nature/the universe is truly random...
As for rogue (or benevolent) aliens being the source of life/universe/everything? It's a distinct possibility. But, who/what created those aliens?
Must have been a pan-galactic white mouse called Benji...
Gosh, this
is fun!