The Wonder of Reality

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I sometimes wonder if religious people genuinely grasped how awe-inspiring the scientific explanation of life is, would they be atheists? It's true that a scientific view doesn't provide consolation or promise of an afterlife, but I think what it does offer far outweighs these things - a sense of sincere privilege to be part of a universe where, despite the astronomically small odds of us existing, we burst into consciousness thanks to an unbroken chain of events in our ancestral history. It blows my mind to think that the specific nature of the occurrences of all past events brought each of us about; I think it's a thought which should make one feel incredibly special in spite of our individual insignificance in the universe. The thought is made all the more amazing when you consider that our existence is owed to a chain of events in an uncaring universe where there were no laws or destiny governing the unfolding of events. The past could have unfolded in an infinite number of ways, yet it happened in the exact way to bring us about, and here we are, thinking, breathing, feeling, living beings conscious of the whole process. Ah, it's just beautiful.

I would think that at the very least, their view of such a simplistic, human-centric sex-obsessed god might be challenged. If they could see the view removed from our little armpit of the galaxy, all the other planets, and the different life forms that it's fairly reasonable to assume exists elsewhere it may give them pause for thought. What the fuck is the rest of all this for? Why didn't god even know what it was when he described it in his own book? Why is there other life around the place? Why would a being so amazing as to be able to create this whole thing be watching me masturbate, crying about it and keeping score?

I wish I could test this hypothesis Maybe deism would become more popular instead.