It is what I believe today. That belief always has room to change in nature or turn 180%.
I can not find any way to reconcile the world as I see it, the nature of the human condition, the experiences I have had and seen and draw a conclusion that natural forces are all that are at play. As I have said and this does not seem to resonate, natural forces means what, how and why would they arise and then be self generating? Something that has no guidance, no direction no skin in the game and gets everything right, in an over all sense, has organised itself into spectacular coordination producing a series of deeply interconnected processes of staggering complexity to produce this universe and all life there in. How is that possible? Time and good luck? I don't think so.
One camp wants us to believe that an inert, accidental benevolence became active for no good reason and just keeps getting bigger and better and pumping out increased degrees of complexity.
The other camp wants everybody to dumb down and believe a deity spoke and those words manifested in Creation.
I reject both camps while not having an answer and being open to an answer. Science is my best hope at this stage. Whatever this god thing is it clearly works through nature and does not perform extra miracles beyond the effects of nature for the grovelling masses. The Bible and such works, having no way to describe this Cognitive Force speak of it in allusions and metaphors. And it is the reasoning of 2,000 / 3,000 / 4,000 years ago. Pretty good effort I reckon.
I do think there is a higher reality. I think this is a far greater likelihood that a self generating natural force and billions of years.
Of course once natural forces established they drove the evolution of everything, from galaxy clusters to the virus.
Of the things I am 100% sure of and there are not that many, one is evolution. Religion has no right to bring itself into such ridicule by rejecting one of clearest scientific certainties. That said, I'm not sure that evolution is just a process of fortunate accidents. If God exists and I think It does, not in any anthropomorphic sense but as an organising principle, as a principle of evolutionary direction, then God is embedded in evolution.
And having said this it then must become the source of this world. But, show me evidence to the contrary and I will change ship.
I could go on but this must by now must make my position perfectly unclear.
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