Comments on: September 2007 http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2007/09/21/627/ Discussions of religion and ethics from an atheist perspective Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:44:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Benjamin http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2007/09/21/627/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Benjamin Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:20:00 +0000 http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2007/09/21/627/#comment-27 All that stuff is very very interesting. But to know if wether our universe has been created by a conscious being or not, nobody can tell. Because we do not know anything about it. Why not a God then? The fact is that, atheist or not, nobody can assume reasonably that god exists or not. There is a complete lack of knowledge at this point from the point of view of the scientist. Scientists still try to find out why our universe has been created but no satisfactory reason has been ever discovered until now. So we should better shut our mouth and wait. If god exists, we would logically meet him when dead. But wether it exists or not, a great part of the humanity will know great deception at the moment of its death. And that sounds pretty funny ^^…

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2007/09/21/627/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Anonymous Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:18:00 +0000 http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2007/09/21/627/#comment-26 Ancient Egyptians surmised that a dung beetle created the Earth. I accept that version of “intelligent design” as long as it is extended — the entire cosmos emerged from the collective wisdom of a committee. That they’re still in charge . . . and having some problems (as committees always do):

** The Arthropodic Principle — note from HQ **

To: all
From: CEO

Subject: Causes and solutions of major anthropic screw-up

It was the Corporate Committee on Systematic World Ordering which initiated an RFP, cost-plus basis. Failure to recognize that Hellaburton was an unreliable contractor, created certain problems with shoddy workmanship and substandard materials which quickly emerged.

These however were plastered over for at least 4 billion years until the first multicellular creatures appeared in planet’s Precambrian oceans. By then it was too late to adjust any nucleotides. After all, it is a double blind test.

The last 550 million years, however, have proved one unforeseen disaster after another, culminating in Nature’s Greatest Mistake, humanity. Currently, almost 7 billion cases of hypertrophy of the prefrontal cortex!

Delicious irony though. The defect provides an illusion of having “free will.” Of course, homeostatic causes are still causes. But, as delusions go, this one is a sicko. Unfortunately, the trait is far too stable to be wiped out by laws of population genetics.

Looks like human heads must roll. The Corporate Committee on Oort Cloud Exploitation hopes to find a suitably large comet in the next 65 million years, give or take 5 million years.

However, let there be light. The standing Corporate Committee on Bio-organics has estimated that the average species lasts only about 2 million years. Patience hath its rewards.

Personally, I want the testing to continue. I find myself inordinately fond of beetles. Let it be called the arthropodic principle.

bipolar2
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