RE: We Are Stardust
April 25, 2010 at 12:09 am
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2010 at 12:14 am by SleepingDemon.)
That's the thing with the idea of creationism. Almost every religion/belief system has creation in one form or another within their mythology. But throughout the ages, whilst for millenia merely a sad reminder of their absence of understanding, mankind neglected the simple fact that we are built from the same atoms, the same electrons and protons, the same elements and minerals that everything in the universe consists of. It isn't magical fairydust in our genes, it's complex carbons and nucleic acids that exist elsewhere, albeit in simpler forms. They have found clouds of methane gas in the universe, a cloud of pure alcohol on the other side of the galaxy. Iron ore pummels this planet and others in the solar system from the far reaches of space. The things that exist here exist everywhere. The universe itself envelopes the endless cycle of creation and destruction. When one star dies, another emerges from it's ash, and that solar system begins again. It's magical, almost spiritual....wait.....damn.
"In our youth, we lacked the maturity, the decency to create gods better than ourselves so that we might have something to aspire to. Instead we are left with a host of deities who were violent, narcissistic, vengeful bullies who reflected our own values. Our gods could have been anything we could imagine, and all we were capable of manifesting were gods who shared the worst of our natures."-Me
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon