A good friend of mine is convinced I ask too many questions for my own good, but here I go anyway :):
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Take a look at these numbers. What are these numbers? Random numbers. Do they mean anything? No. Why? Because they're random. So would anyone study something meaningless and pointless? Most likely not.
If life is truly random like these numbers, then why are there scientists, anthropologists, anatomists, etc. who are studying prokaryotic cells, eukaryotic cells, tissues, organs, plants and animals? Why are there philosophers and run-of-the-mill people questioning the meaning of life or wondering what their purpose in life is? Why is there order rather than chaos? If life is all just a chaotic, random universe, then nobody would be studying it because there would be no reason to do so.
I've grappled with the possiblity of life being a extroadinary random accident this past summer.
Hence the two cosmological views I've looked at:
1) Cosmos had a beginning: There was nothing before the big bang. Everything came after the big bang; but Sarte asked an old aged philosophical question about nothinginess: "Why is there something rather than nothing?" In other words, how can something come from nothing?
2) Cosmos always has been, always existed: I learned about the Second Law of Thermodynamics in my biology and genetics course; this law states that energy is always being converted to less-useful energy. Everything around us is winding down--so eventually, energy will run out. If this is the case, then we have no future; everything will be dead...So how does this theory work with the "cosmos always existing"? The claim that the universe will be dead in the future debunks the eternity of the cosmos theory.
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3498750894534597437520710724507429752492610645642084
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Take a look at these numbers. What are these numbers? Random numbers. Do they mean anything? No. Why? Because they're random. So would anyone study something meaningless and pointless? Most likely not.
If life is truly random like these numbers, then why are there scientists, anthropologists, anatomists, etc. who are studying prokaryotic cells, eukaryotic cells, tissues, organs, plants and animals? Why are there philosophers and run-of-the-mill people questioning the meaning of life or wondering what their purpose in life is? Why is there order rather than chaos? If life is all just a chaotic, random universe, then nobody would be studying it because there would be no reason to do so.
I've grappled with the possiblity of life being a extroadinary random accident this past summer.
Hence the two cosmological views I've looked at:
1) Cosmos had a beginning: There was nothing before the big bang. Everything came after the big bang; but Sarte asked an old aged philosophical question about nothinginess: "Why is there something rather than nothing?" In other words, how can something come from nothing?
2) Cosmos always has been, always existed: I learned about the Second Law of Thermodynamics in my biology and genetics course; this law states that energy is always being converted to less-useful energy. Everything around us is winding down--so eventually, energy will run out. If this is the case, then we have no future; everything will be dead...So how does this theory work with the "cosmos always existing"? The claim that the universe will be dead in the future debunks the eternity of the cosmos theory.
With all this in mind, I'm looking outside my window to watch all the critters run around in preparation for the fall and I'm wondering how could the notion that this was all just a freak accident even exist?
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