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Originally Posted by sesame
What I am trying to say is, that Nature's perfect engineering is proof enough of a Higher consciousness. Nature herself is God!
I am not looking for some bearded man on a throne, set upon some clouds, who either sends you to heaven, or, to eternal hellfire, for the work of one tiny lifetime! This idea is indeed preposterous.  |
Again you are mischaracterizing. Who brought up bearded men on thrones and heaven and hell?
Evidence of order is not evidence of consciousness. Take the game of life for example. These complex designs
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/Gam...rit/Life35.png
were created by a few simple rules:
* A cell is either dead or alive.
* Each cell (dead or alive) is evaluated according to the number of immediate neighbours (maximum eight in original model).
* Then according to the number of neighbors, each cell may be born, stay alive or die.
(and yes, I know a consciousness invented the game of life, but that was only to create the virtual world where simple physics exists). You can claim that a consciousness created the laws that govern the universe and gave rise to life on earth like a gigantic game of life. But still, who created the consciousness? What does the consciousness exist in before it creates the universe?
Here's an example that doesn't include any consciousness. It's just math. The mandelbrot set, which uses the iterated equation Z = Z2 + C. From that, infinitely complex fractals can be created.
http://www.ddewey.net/mandelbrot/spiral.png