21st January 2018, 9:59 PM
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(21st January 2018, 9:09 PM)James Temple Wrote: Great, because I'm tired of reading the bible over and over.
Scientifically, I don't think we're alone. We're living people, together with so many species of animals and plants and fungi and everything else living on earth. We're all carbon based life forms. That being said, all the life we know is nothing but carbon based. The current scientific consensus doesn't provide for any other kind of life form outside of theory (silicon based life?) when in reality it could be so much more than that.
Chemical reactions can only provide for so much energy. Nuclear fission and fusion can provide for so much more, and even more than that, gravitational pull. There could be life forms based around these kinds of energy releases as opposed to chemical ones, and we'll never know until we actually go out and check one of these days. Given that there are such life forms, and those life forms could possibly be conscious, if you consider that a god, sure. Maybe God does exist in that sense. Maybe the Sun IS our God (I mean, it did create us, but what created it?)
Some see life on earth through chemical reactions as a miracle, but I find life through chemical reactions and bonding a miracle in and of itself. For these reactions to provide for life which is so tiny is almost beyond comprehension. But we're probably not alone. There probably is some greater form of existence (not divine) out there, and it probably would never have guessed that something like us could've possibly been made, either.
So we're definitely on the same page here when it comes to the theoretical possibility of the ways life can manifest. So to clarify what God is to me is a consciousness that has manifested out of EVERYTHING, and as I've found, there are a good many people who also imagine god in a similar light.. A greater consciousness of which we are only tiny little cells, much like the bacteria that lives on our skin and in our bodies. You are right about chemical reactions and bonding being a miracle. The fact that physical laws exist is a miracle. What is the driving force behind these realities? What about the forces that exist which we are unaware of? Perhaps there is an intelligence which makes these things so. Perhaps this intelligence is purposeful in its action, but only in the broadest sense of the word.
Maybe god is just a supercomputer. I don't know, but the idea of a greater consciousness which flows through everything seems very plausible to me. The infinity-ness of everything that exists is absolutely perplexing to me.
