where did your soul come from - don't you feel your soul? do you really think humans could acheive and feel what they do from just being the sum of evolution?
where did the laws of this world come from? i'm not necessarily talking about the aesthetic beauty of the universe (the earth, stars, galxies) etc. but instead the fact that they are governed by beautiful and coherent laws. where did these genious laws (general relativity, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics etc.) come from? they have undeniable beauty, elegance, complexity and mathematical coherence. surely they were created by some intelligent being? this is probably irrelevant but in my opinion great physicsts such as Newton and Einstein realised this hence their belief in a Creator (although very different creators according to both of them).
or did these laws of physics just happen to appear from out of nothing all at once? is God actually just the laws of nature? what actually does this exactly mean? did a 'God' create the laws or not? if not who or what created or designed the laws?
i'm not saying i 'know' God exists but I have faith he does - and i beleive for good reason.
(this is not me but our fictional friend, we'll call him Lateef)
Lateef
My father was in a car accident, he no longer reacts to anything but he still breaths and lives. The doctor says he is pretty much gone. Why is his soul not responding? Many a times I have looked into his eyes, looking for the man I once knew, and I find nothing but a blank stare looking back at me. I have spoken to him, but he does not respond back. We have done all sorts of tests and it really seems that he is gone. Where is his soul? Why does his soul not communicate with me? Why can’t we find it?
I feel the same awe when I look at the world. My heart is filled with this incredible feeling, I feel light like I can soar to the sky. So I agree with you there although I try not to add anything else, like saying its miraculous because this detracts from me trying to understand this. Say for example I say machinery I didn't understand, if I keep saying amazing, wonderful and so on (even though I feel it) I fear I might never understand it. So I try to keep that to a minimum without killing the inspiration that it brings. I try not to elevate it to the level where it becomes unreachable. I try not to make it more complicated than it already is.
You know my friend, before we would look at a butterfly and we would compare it to a clock. We would say the clock has a maker so the butterfly must have one. The problem is that the clock definitely does have a maker. I can see this, I can get the maker and have it explained. But how I do I know the butterfly has a maker? Because has it really been created the same way? Is it valid of me to look at the final result of this butterfly and conclude there is a maker? I try to see if there is another possibility for it being here. And I think I have found a pretty good explanation. It’s not perfect but it works. I now no longer compare the natural with the man-made.
The laws of the universe have been around before living organism (as far as I know) but I fear we might make the same mistake. We look at it and say there is a creator. We just don’t know enough about it yet. It was only recently we understood the natural world on our planet, I think its better to stay humble and study the laws of the universe with humility, trying to minimize assumptions to a minimum.
The other issue is this Creator. Who is this Creator? Where did they come from? If things come from something, is it not valid according to this argument to assume they came from something? Can you point me to them? Or to Him? Or her? Do they answer to us? How can you deduce its nature without observing it? Have you spoken to it? We can observe the natural laws but nothing else. Is it not unwise to make any other assumptions outside what we can observe?
It might be a valid assumption, to say there is a cause for the laws of the universe. Even without knowing the cause, or what caused it. But how do you live your life based on this assumption?
You say there is a cause, in what way is your life dictated by this assumption? Are there things you don’t do, are there things you do specifically based on the assumption? What about the lives of those who live with you? The ones you are responsible for. Are their lives dictated by this assumption of yours?
I say I do not know the cause, and I find this to be a decent answer, because I honestly don’t KNOW. Know as in I know my name, or that I know my father. Or that I know if I don’t breath in oxygen I will suffocate and die. And I live life by this; it’s a negative assumption. It doesn’t hold any “data”. I make decisions based on this. And the lives of those I am responsible live their lives based on their assumptions and not mine because how can I dictate something positive out of something negative? We try to find a way to live together, to live in harmony. We learn as we go. It’s not perfect but it works most of the time.
Now, you live your life the same, the assumption you have dictates your life. But it’s a positive assumption, there is data within it. How does that work for you? How does that work for others?
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