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This part in particular really stuck out for me as it's a point I've been making (in lesser words) for quite some time when it comes to why I am an atheist: "F
by cwilson 17y ago
This part in particular really stuck out for me as it's a point I've been making (in lesser words) for quite some time when it comes to why I am an atheist:
"For instance, the size of the universe is very impressive, with us on a tiny particle whirling around the sun, among a hundred thousand million suns in this galaxy, itself among a billion galaxies.
Again, there is the close relation of biological man to the animals, and of one form of life to another. Man is a latecomer in a vast evolving drama; can the rest be but a scaffolding for his creation?
Yet again, there are the atoms of which all appears to be constructed, following immutable laws. Nothing can escape it; the stars are made of the same stuff, and the animals are made of the same stuff, but in such complexity as to mysteriously appear alive – like man himself.
It is a great adventure to contemplate the universe beyond man, to think of what it means without man – as it was for the great part of its long history, and as it is in the great majority of places. When this objective view is finally attained, and the mystery and majesty of matter are appreciated, to then turn the objective eye back on man viewed as matter, to see life as part of the universal mystery of greatest depth, is to sense an experience which is rarely described. It usually ends in laughter, delight in the futility of trying to understand. These scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged simply as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems to be inadequate."
What he doesn't say is the point I attempt to make after explaining my version of Feynman's quoted text: If we are such a small speck in the vastness of the universe, what right do we have as human beings to claim we KNOW what created us and everything else? Why do we assume the universe is merely something for us to look at in the sky?
In my opinion religion and certain belief in deities is simply arrogance and a great crime by humanity as a whole.