Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Reasonable faith in a teleological system


The teleological argument does not necessary mean that the universe was designed by a super-intelligent being, the theory of evolution can explain how populations over great time can evolve parts that fit together like a machine in the inter-survival of nature. 

The general evolutionary direction of life from the simple to the complex seems to infer the eventual evolution of life to super-complex, supermaterial Godhood, even though life often falls back or devolves. Can we see purpose in what seems to be the endless action of big-bang origins (or any other explanation of the origin of the universe)? Some universes may not even have the conditions for life in them. Why does this keep happening over and over again, as if trying to get it right?

I see a Primal Material and an activating supermaterial Spirit-Will always together defining life, with the Spirit-Will within life activating life in the universe to evolve to supermaterial Godhood, shaped by outside evolution.

Science rightly needs to know of the conclusion before it can know if the premise is true, like a dog chasing its tail. Although science, as best as I can do science, is the ground of my thinking, I can proceed on reasonable faith in a teleological system, even if science, dragging behind, will not yet go there.

Alas, neither religion nor science are happy with this worldview.

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