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Originally Posted by a|one Well not so much no god, just that there is nothing after this life, that we're all just worm food only we dont know it yet. That nothing we do will really make a significant difference in the long run(and even if it did it would just be random occurance, we have no way of knowing how our lives will affect the future) and that were all destined to just fade away and be forgotten. Part of this is because I do accept evolutionary theory and I do believe that the only reason were here is to reproduce and die. |
That's really interesting. I also accept evolutionary theory, mostly. By that I mean that I suspect that what passes as evolutionary theory today is probably mostly accurate, but I also believe that science is a process and not a set of dogmas, and that it is always possible that there have been misapprehensions and misinterpretations and that we may not have it all completely correct just yet. But I don't believe that the correctness of evolutionary theory rules out the possibility of an afterlife of some sort. Of course, some evolutionists would have you believe that it does (and so would some creationists who see that as one of the evils of evolutionary theory); I don't see that one follows the other. I also believe that the existence of a god or gods does not rule out the correctness of evolutionary theory.
I've been told that this just means that I can't make up my mind, but I prefer to believe that this is not an either/or universe. I was just reading today that the Jains (a sect of Hinduism, from what I understand) have something called the Doctrines of Maybe, which grew out of their conviction that there are not just two possibilities for any given thing, but seven. This is very different from what the author of the book I was reading (
The Creators, by Daniel J. Boorstin, a former Librarian of Congress) called "the law of the excluded middle", which Western thought is mostly based on. Apparently, this comes from the teachings of the ancient Greek philosophers, and it is a very dualistic way of thinking - something either is or is not. I'm not convinced that is/is not gives an accurate view of the universe.
I'm not sure if any of this makes any sense. It's getting too late in the evening to discuss philosophy.
