Rhythm. Thanks for taking the time. I like where your'e going. First off, hilarious DOUCH-E-GOD description. The Calvinist God does appear to be predestined for douchness. I came to a point where, after questioning my evangelical beliefs that, if the biblical god were true, I couldn't support that system. I would go to hell before signing on to the idea of good people burning in eternal hell for not worshiping an egotisitical Deity. That is just sick. With that, I became much more open to abandoning the God-Myth.
Therefore, in my humble opinion, if there is a higher power of some sort, the "most likely possibility" is that there is not a true meta-physical entity, but simply one that naturally evolved via technology and/or genetically to a much greater degree than mankind.
Also, can we really discount a previous human civilization? There is evidence that there has been five mass extinctions with the worst occurring some 250 million years ago. That leaves a lot of time unaccounted for considering that the earth is 4.5 billion years old. Human civilization sprung up even after those mass extinction events, which speaks to the resiliency of life itself. It is probably argued that DNA continued to evolve through these mass extinction events and that evolution of the human species was probably helped by these mass extinction events. the reason I say you can't disprove a prior civilation is because the evidence for such life could have been destroyed during the mass extension event, such as mass volcanic activity of a meteor.
I'll have to learn more about Epicurus as my understanding is admittedly elementary.
So, are we all alone? Are there beings who have reached the singularity (in the Kurzweil sense of the term) and now can control life itself? Kurweil's projections are lofty, but who could argue that a civilization 1000 years beyond ours couldn't control life? Once you can control life,, i.e. eternal life, aren't you God-like?
Therefore, in my humble opinion, if there is a higher power of some sort, the "most likely possibility" is that there is not a true meta-physical entity, but simply one that naturally evolved via technology and/or genetically to a much greater degree than mankind.
Also, can we really discount a previous human civilization? There is evidence that there has been five mass extinctions with the worst occurring some 250 million years ago. That leaves a lot of time unaccounted for considering that the earth is 4.5 billion years old. Human civilization sprung up even after those mass extinction events, which speaks to the resiliency of life itself. It is probably argued that DNA continued to evolve through these mass extinction events and that evolution of the human species was probably helped by these mass extinction events. the reason I say you can't disprove a prior civilation is because the evidence for such life could have been destroyed during the mass extension event, such as mass volcanic activity of a meteor.
I'll have to learn more about Epicurus as my understanding is admittedly elementary.
So, are we all alone? Are there beings who have reached the singularity (in the Kurzweil sense of the term) and now can control life itself? Kurweil's projections are lofty, but who could argue that a civilization 1000 years beyond ours couldn't control life? Once you can control life,, i.e. eternal life, aren't you God-like?
