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Ehh, while most would agree, I have met biologists who deny evolution. Membership to a club of belief is a powerful source of cognitive dissonance.
by Neliquat 10y ago
Ehh, while most would agree, I have met biologists who deny evolution. Membership to a club of belief is a powerful source of cognitive dissonance.
- mjevans 10y agoI believe it /technically/ possible that the world could be initialized in such a state that it appears as if evolution occurred when it had instead merely been made to exist in such a state. That is probably astronomically unlikely, but you don't even really need a 'god' to produce such an outcome. Imagine if an alien race wanted to run a simulation of some sort that was only possible in reality. So they go to the trouble of setting up an entire solar system and planet as their staging ground. It isn't conceptually beyond any possibility, but the effort required is likely beyond my capacity to accurately imagine. It's so highly unlikely that I don't believe it actually happened, but I cannot say for absolute certain that it didn't. Given the history of everything, even war-time level efforts to keep secrets, I don't believe anyone could creditably say that any level of over-ride key wouldn't be impossible to leak from /somewhere/.
- thyrsus 10y agoAn omnipotent entity could have initialized the universe (including everyone's memories) one femtosecond ago; one does not obtain actionable information from picking an arbitrary point (e.g., 6000 years ago) for this to have happened.