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Periodiko
Jan 30, 2005
Uh.

OwlFancier posted:

Why? A creator by necessity must be more complex than its creation, you're essentially asking me to imagine not just the universe but also something intelligent enough to completely understand the universe in every possible way, that's a pretty big leap.

If you want me to believe something is just there without really asking why I find that much, much easier to do with something inanimate and less complex than a creator god.

It betrays the nature of the creationist urge: it's not that a godlike super-being is more likely, it's that it's more comprehensible to our hunter-gatherer brain. The problem is that that isn't how the universe works. Nothing about the extremes of the universe actually "makes sense", because the nature of the universe isn't within the evolutionary scope of our dumb brains.

That something makes intuitive sense should make you more skeptical, not less.

SedanChair posted:

"Didn't all this come from a big monkey--the first monkey?" a monkey reasoned.

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