01-18-2018, 01:54 AM
In one myth, the Earth lies upon a giant turtle.
On what does the turtle stand?
... It is far easier to explain the origin as the result of the choice of One Single Intelligent Creator... or that it is the result of random chance, and that it seems to have One Single Intelligent Creator only to the extent that we anthropomorphize what is random chance solely because we are what we are. The first is monotheistic creation; the latter is atheistic random chance. Such a choice seems to mark modern thought -- it goes one way or the other.
Some advanced civilization that established the Universe? Who created that civilization?
Sorry, fellow -- I'm not amenable to cranky theories.
On what does the turtle stand?
... It is far easier to explain the origin as the result of the choice of One Single Intelligent Creator... or that it is the result of random chance, and that it seems to have One Single Intelligent Creator only to the extent that we anthropomorphize what is random chance solely because we are what we are. The first is monotheistic creation; the latter is atheistic random chance. Such a choice seems to mark modern thought -- it goes one way or the other.
Some advanced civilization that established the Universe? Who created that civilization?
Sorry, fellow -- I'm not amenable to cranky theories.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.