22nd May 2009, 4:36 PM
Well, I wouldn't say it's a lie. There's history there that's a very real entity, shared by multiple cultures thousands of miles a part all with similar offerings. Everyone seems to agree that a Jew was raised to be a Pharaoh who singlehandedly freed the Jewish slaves of Egypt. Everything else is up for debate, for example modern religion swears there's ten commandments but with closer examination there's actually around 500 to 700. All written by God, all dictated to Moses, all equally as important and all but forgotten by the very people who need and use them.
Christianity as the end-all be-all of answers isn't very wise, that would be like saying a single chapter from an encyclopedia has all the answers you need and then that single chapter is chopped up and rearranged by every culture that comes in to contact with it so finding out anything definitively is like trying to get a straight answer from a used car salesmen. But it is definitely a large section of our history as human beings. It's just cutting through the BS that costs so much energy, so we end up with two extremes on each end.
My opinion is based on an idea too, and that idea is based on scientific fact.
You can spit in a cup and in 3 weeks mushrooms will grow. I could take a dump on the surface of a planet with an oxygen atmosphere and start the process of life that could eventually reach multi-cell organisms and intelligent animals... from my poo. Every living thing is actually a series of parts that get progressively smaller to the point of infinite innerspace and to the point of infinite outerspace. It's my opinion that our world is a living, breathing planet and that the unknown universe is the body of that cell. The universe by design attempts to create and breath life in to anything. Forming base materials out of known and unknown materials and cultivating life like a giant farm to produce among at least one known offering, living planets capable of forming complex forms of life. But I use that term with a grain of salt, because we have no idea if we're actually complex compared to what else is possible out there (Well, we know salt is out there, at least). Whether its life on another planet, or the proposed theories of darkmatter that bind the universe with its inverted principals that go against everything we ever tried to understand or an idea that a combo of gases could form sentient mass there is simply no denying the idea that this universe wants to build life in any and every form.
To me that really means something. I dont know what that something is, but I dont disregard it. On the subject of evolution at the end of the day, it doesn't matter. It's like revisiting past relationships and yeah, it's actually kind of depressing as much as it is fascinating that we were lemurs. But to disregard it is just ignorant. It's information we can use to find out more answers and raise new questions that will ultimately bring us closer to understanding our own existence and the life around us.
Christianity as the end-all be-all of answers isn't very wise, that would be like saying a single chapter from an encyclopedia has all the answers you need and then that single chapter is chopped up and rearranged by every culture that comes in to contact with it so finding out anything definitively is like trying to get a straight answer from a used car salesmen. But it is definitely a large section of our history as human beings. It's just cutting through the BS that costs so much energy, so we end up with two extremes on each end.
My opinion is based on an idea too, and that idea is based on scientific fact.
You can spit in a cup and in 3 weeks mushrooms will grow. I could take a dump on the surface of a planet with an oxygen atmosphere and start the process of life that could eventually reach multi-cell organisms and intelligent animals... from my poo. Every living thing is actually a series of parts that get progressively smaller to the point of infinite innerspace and to the point of infinite outerspace. It's my opinion that our world is a living, breathing planet and that the unknown universe is the body of that cell. The universe by design attempts to create and breath life in to anything. Forming base materials out of known and unknown materials and cultivating life like a giant farm to produce among at least one known offering, living planets capable of forming complex forms of life. But I use that term with a grain of salt, because we have no idea if we're actually complex compared to what else is possible out there (Well, we know salt is out there, at least). Whether its life on another planet, or the proposed theories of darkmatter that bind the universe with its inverted principals that go against everything we ever tried to understand or an idea that a combo of gases could form sentient mass there is simply no denying the idea that this universe wants to build life in any and every form.
To me that really means something. I dont know what that something is, but I dont disregard it. On the subject of evolution at the end of the day, it doesn't matter. It's like revisiting past relationships and yeah, it's actually kind of depressing as much as it is fascinating that we were lemurs. But to disregard it is just ignorant. It's information we can use to find out more answers and raise new questions that will ultimately bring us closer to understanding our own existence and the life around us.