(April 24, 2014 at 2:23 am)Metalogos Wrote: Human beings create with intentions and goals and so to imagine a creator being that also has/had intentions and goals is only natural.
Human beings also create without dictatorial conscious control. It isn't necessary to decide on a goal and then turn the creative process into merely a struggle to impose that goal on the materials at hand. That approach really doesn't make a for a very high art form. It isn't that human beings can't do that, it just isn't very artful or creative.
(April 24, 2014 at 2:23 am)Metalogos Wrote: When humans began to notice how the world worked, i.e., through the mechanism of cause and effect, they naturally began to think that if one cause brings about an effect and then that in turn becomes a cause to bring about another consecutive effect, there must be, naturally,a first cause for all of this to come about.
Well, so you keep saying. How often must you repeat the incantation to remain convinced I wonder? (No insult intended. Think of it as good natured ribbing.)
(April 24, 2014 at 2:23 am)Metalogos Wrote: I breathe much easier having a sense that human beings of every age have and probably always will tend to have a sense of connection to something divine, to something eternal and perfect.
There are ways of thinking about those three things which won't encumber you with medieval baggage. What gives rise to ourselves is as though 'divine', 'eternal' and 'perfect'. It isn't literally any of those things. You'd be surprised how little you have to give up if you gain a little perspective.
