47. Contemplate creation
First, read Marshall Brain's essay:
Contemplate creation.
Quoting Brain:
The problem with the second option is that it immediately creates an
impossibility. If complexity cannot arise without intelligence, then
we immediately must ask, "Who created the intelligent creator?" The
creator could not spring into existence if complexity requires
intelligence. Therefore, God is impossible.
What's obvious is that highly complex designs in our PHYSICAL world
must have been created by intelligence, in fact, by a REALLY BIG
POWERFUL INTELLIGENCE. An Intelligence outside the PHYSICAL
universe since intelligence is not going to happen by chance in our
PHYSICAL universe (even if presentism was true, and it's not). That
Intelligence comes from outside the PHYSICAL universe. What are
things like over there? In the SPIRITUAL world. Well, we don't
have much to go on since we've had no chance to investigate it. It
looks like intelligence can self-organize over there. Or it is just
natural for intelligence to exist over there. God says He has no
beginning and has no ending. He just IS. I am going to guess that
the same thing extends to human souls. Human souls, like God, just
exist with no beginning and no ending, although clearly human souls
are not as big and knowledgeable and powerful as God. I tend to think
that it would be impossible for God to not exist. The logician Kurt
Gödel produced a proof (that not everyone accepts) that if God
could possibly exist, He must exist. The only way God could not
exist is if it was impossible for Him to exist.
So, to make it short, just because intelligence can't happen by
chance in the physical world, it doesn't mean that intelligence
can't exist in the spiritual world. It's not fair for Brain to
reach that conclusion.
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