DampSquidReligion
As a person who was an atheist for my entire adult life, so 20 years, we are incorrect. It has become very clear to me over the last two years that a notion that we are born, die and its lights out forever is wildly naive. I’m not sure which religion is correct, if any, but there’s something. Google Zoroastrianism if you’re open minded about. I’m not saying that it’s the one hit the abrahamic religions base a lot of their values on i and it predicates all the religion theatrics.
dohpaz42I would like to have a genuine conversation with you about your take. What happened to you in the last two years that had you about-face on your (lack of) faith?
I used to be religious growing up (it was a familial expectation). Then I kinda half-heartedly gave up, and I became agnostic. Eventually I decided that there is no God as we know it, but I do not deny the idea that there was some greater hand at play in our existence as a species.
Things do feel a little too coincidental to simply be random. For existence, our existence in general: the earth had to form in just the right place in space, and the temperature and oxygen levels had to level out to a specific point for humanoids to form and grow.
I know that can all be explained by science, and I am not disputing any science. But that’s my anecdotal opinion on why I feel there is something/someone out there bigger than us (but not a God).
Like I said, I’m genuinely curious on your take.
For existence, our existence in general: the earth had to form in just the right place in space, and the temperature and oxygen levels had to level out to a specific point for humanoids to form and grow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_universe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_hypothesis
That said, if those circumstances were different, we would not be around to observe them. But we are, so the only outcome is that it will always feel miraculous.
Yeah… survival bias wouldn’t have a name if it would be easy to avoid it.