Here is the thing
about science. Besides allowing people to think for themselves, it doesn’t
require a shed of belief in anything. It only requires the power of observation
and a curiosity for learning. No need to believe in ancient tales of
metaphysical forces performing miracles two thousand years ago and then
mysteriously disappearing forever. If you want proof that gravity exists, jump
up in the air. If you fall down, that’s gravity pulling you down towards the
earth. If I want proof of evolution I go look at animals. Best to start with
our close relatives if you need convincing. When I lock eyes with an orangutan,
I see familiarity. I see kinship. I see evolution. Why do you think so many
animals have eyes, nose, ears, mouth and teeth? Because we all evolved from the
same original cell. We are all related which is why we all look like each other
and have similar instincts. That’s evolution. Whenever you are feeling the
light of the sun burning your skin, you are being bombarded with light energy
and radiation emanating from a colossal gas giant fusing atoms in its core
creating energy that in turn causes plants to create oxygen that you then
inhale every time you take a breath, feeding your body and brain with that very
same oxygen. It is a chemical process that keeps your body functioning. Not
some divine design, it’s all just a result of the ticking of the universal
clockwork. Nature is my church, being alive is my worship.
We have evolved on
this planet, thus our bodies are perfected to live here. That’s why we
(ideally) sleep for eight hours, because the earth takes 24 hours to revolve
around itself. Our calendar, our very concept of time is based on exactly these
movements. One year is a full revolution around the sun, the biggest object in
the solar system and thus what everything spins around. But if we didn’t have
Jupiter two planets out, then we would slowly circle into the sun and be
devoured. Instead we are being pulled just enough in either direction to have
the perfect conditions for life. So when people talk of intelligent design I
shake my head. If there was a God that created the entire universe just for our
sake, don’t you think he overdid it a little bit? I mean what was the exact
need to create an infinite amount of other galaxies and stars if it was all
just a plan to create Earth and humans. No, the reason why we’re here is
because our planet has the exact right conditions to create life in the form that
it has taken on this planet. If any other factor was different then we wouldn’t
be here. This is called the anthropic principle. We are only here because out
of billions and billions of solar system with billions and billions of planets
and moons, our planet has the exact right conditions to sustain life as we know
it, and that is why we are here. No design, no divine intervention just pure
statistical chance driven forward by the universal clockwork. Of course, in
accordance with the humility of science this paradigm might completely change
in the future pending new discoveries, but based on what we know right now, it
is a perfectly sound theory, unlike the story of a divine creator of which
there is NO empirical evidence whatsoever.
As mentioned previously,
I am no atheist in the purest definition of the word. Thanks to Dawkins I now
know to label myself as a pantheist. So although I don’t believe in any type of
deity, I observe the world and all the workings of the universal clockwork as
God. These forces are what created and continuously governs everything and one
day they will destroy our planet, perhaps sooner than we expect. But they are
still forces greater than ourselves and easily fulfill any gap that the absence
of God would create. Only, the universal clockwork does not require you to live
in any particular manner, it gives you absolute freedom and rather welcomes you
into its midst, it wants you to learn more about it and seek to help others do
the same. It is continuously encouraging growth and wants you to progress.
After all, if we don’t, we will for a fact perish along with our planet.
Judgment day IS coming, and instead of just piously waiting for it, we should
rather evolve further to a point where it doesn’t necessarily mean the end of
our species but rather an impetus to seek even new horizons in other galaxies
and/or in other forms.
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