Ferdi wrote: ↑Thu Feb 21, 2019 3:46 am
Why those hints about a designer? My mere human brain tells me that “if” there were a designer of our Universe, such designer’s capability would be beyond our imagination, beyond our ideas of time, purpose and quality.
Right, the proposed designer’s capabilities are way beyond our ability to understand.
And I suggest that they are beyond us in precisely the same way that our own capabilities are beyond an amoeba’s ability to understand.
Yet, here we are - the designers and creators of cars, computers, skyscrapers, and space shuttles.
You just need to be open to the idea that the designer and creator of suns, planets, cells, and DNA could be as far above us in scope and consciousness as we are above the amoeba, as is represented in one of my fanciful illustrations:
The illustration is my own personal rendition of what I call “The Ascending Ladder of Consciousness.”
And the point is that humans need to stop assuming that we are the occupiers of the top rung.
Ferdi wrote: ↑Thu Feb 21, 2019 3:46 am
If I had a swimming pool in my backyard, I would NOT just throw my child in it. Although I only have a mere human intelligence, I would know that drowning is to be expected. The point is: I and my backyard are of fallible design, I know it and act accordingly. If there were a designer of the Universe, such designer would inherently know everything, is responsible for whatever Universe.
Right again, Ferdi.
However, if your momentary existence within the universe was, in fact, a necessary prelude to your awakening into eternal life in a higher context of reality...
(similar to how your momentary existence within the darkness of your mother’s womb was a necessary prelude to your earthly existence)
...would you still consider it (the universe) to be a fallible design?
Ferdi wrote: ↑Thu Feb 21, 2019 3:46 am
Why assume to have a designer?
Because the alternative - (chance) - is just too ridiculous to hold as a plausible explanation.
To understand what I mean, read this post here -
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=23943&start=45#p357784
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