01-08-2019, 10:44 AM
(01-07-2019, 01:51 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: But imagine the alpha-wave prophets will see much value in the words of their previous prophet forebears like Obama and Stephen King.
"I understand where Bill Maher is coming from when he says, basically, the world is destroying itself over a bunch of fairy tales about talking snakes and men who are alive inside fishes. I'm very sympathetic to it, but at the same time, given the cosmos that we're living in, it's very persuasive, the idea that there is some kind of first cause that's running things. It might not be the god of Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye, it might not be the god of al-Qaida, and it might not be the god of Abraham, but something very well could be running things. The order of the universe as we see it, the interlocking nature, and the way things work together, are persuasive of the idea that there may be some overarching first cause."
Sounds good to me.
I cannot believe in any fictional deity of puny human mythologies, but there probably is some cosmic spirit. Olaf Stapledon called Him Star Maker. The universe is fine-tuned for life, the only alternative is ridiculous multiverse theory.
Nice to hear Stephen King believes in Star Maker as well.