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Origin Ruminations

by Nicholas Barnard on October 22nd, 2003

If you bother to think about it for more than five minutes its amazing that man came into being as a result of a series of chance events.

Star Trek explains this away by stating that an ancient intergalactic civilization seeded our planet with DNA to allow it to evolve. This of course just shifts the question to how did they come into being? You still need to apply the same question just to a different civilization.

Relying on the random evolutionary argument is akin to getting a computer without an operating system, setting up a device to randomly type on it and hope that within the next 1,000 years it will create Windows. (wait, isn’t this how its currently written?) I would be amazed and quite skeptical if this resulted in a functioning operating system. We have usable operating systems because there were intelligent designers who carefully created them.

Therefore I believe that there is an intelligent designer(s), ID, of the universe. The ID must be permanently existing, because if the ID at one point did not exist we would be at the same conundrum regarding the beginning of an intelligent designer. The ID could at one point cease to exist, but the ID must exist infinitely into the past.

I am not arguing for the existence of a standard Christian-Judea god. That perception of god is logically inconsistent. That god is a creation of human desires channeled into god’s mouth for the benefit of easier codification and enforcement. Given that there are religions that are contradictory and that both use “god given” sources as their basis. It is reasonable to theorize that a Christian-Judea god as currently understood is a result of human desires, not actual divine inspiration. Finally a Christian-Judea god would be frustrated with the human manipulation of documents to fit the interpreter’s desires.

The intelligent designer is fundamentally different than a Christian-Judea god because while a Christian-Judea god directs us how to live the ID has designed and does not interfere. God is akin to a computer programmer telling you exactly what you can and cannot do with an operating system, or an architect who directs people where to walk inside their finished building. Both the god like controlling architect and the god-like computer programmer would not be tolerated or reasonable.

In addition a god who wanted to speak to the populace would purchase infomercial time on every station to ensure that he wished to communicate was consumed. The god paradigm is the manipulation of man, if god wanted to speak he would speak directly and clearly.

The ID either cannot or chooses not to interfere.

The concept of an ID allows science to function and resolves questions regarding the beginning of the universe as well as the beginning of life.

Regardless of if the existence of an ID can be proven it provides a placeholder upon which to rest any logical construction of the universe.

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  • http://scatteredthoughts.net kazen

    Though i’ve studied enough math and biology to feel comfortable with the idea of complexity arising from non complexity,
    i still get this “tickle” at the back of my brain sometimes, and i call it “the Prime Mover”.
    I suspect it is very similar to your Designer.
    take some time to look into the roots of complexity. not because i wish to weaken your point, but, because more knowledge will allow you to strengthen, and refine your ideas, or, change them, as you did on your ruminations 2.
    it is qute possible to make the raw ingredients of RNA inside naturally occurring oily bubbles..and once you have RNA, it’s not a huge step to di-oxy reibonucleaic acids..:)
    and if you have bacteria, and a hell of alot of time, it is possible to get complex life.
    the book “wonderful life” by stephen jay gould is a look at tsome of the first origins of complex life. had things gone differently at the beginning, nothing even vaguely like the life we know would exist.
    intellectual Taoism has some ideas you might find of interest. “the tao of physics” is an old book, but a good one.
    and for that matter,
    modern higher physics, as well- if you get a moment, take a second and read some of the stuff on this search- http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=branes+big+bang&btnG=Google+Search
    origins are difficult. for thing1 to exist,it must arise from nothingness.
    and some might argue that asking for nothingness to create a super-powerful universe-spanning conciousness for starters ..is a bit more to ask than just enough heat, and hydrogen to make stars.
    to push the “designer” back in time before the universe exisated just delays the question. he still needed to arise, in a “dimension” with even less organizational capacity.
    the branes listed earlier, (short for membranes) is a beautiful theorum, and explain a heck of a lot, if they’re true, and evidence to back it up is starting to trickle in.
    a universe of potential energy exists. something introduces a wave. (perhaps even irregularities in the wave pattern itself..like little magnetic whorls stirring a calm sea of iron filings)
    this wave amplifies itself..
    and suddenly, a dimension is vibrating. humming with resonant potential energy,
    every action has an equal and opposite reaction (i’m cheating by saying this, because newton would not be involved here..but symmetry is important to energy. all energy)
    the vibration of dimension1, that membrane would cause the opposite rippling in another “brane”
    add two opposing waves, you get 0.
    +5 and -5 =0
    that 0, that balance seems to be buried in every aspect of energy we can find, or hypothesize..
    but if those waves drift.. and collide at a place where both “waves” are at +5.. you don’t get 0.
    you get +10 in a very very tiny space. a point of existance smaller than a quark.
    things go boom.
    it’s a very large bang, and it seems to have created a new “membrane” we call the universe.
    could be true, could be false..but the math is pointing this way.
    going to your theme of cycles.. those original membranes would have been repelled by the collision.. but the forces that attracted them togeather still exist. and we’re now in the middle.
    another collision could create another universe. maybe several have already happened.
    or, it could effectively destroy all complexity in this universe..
    *bang* slide *bang* slide *bang*
    the membranes hit, and bounce away, and hit, and bounce away
    a dance of energy, over trillions of centuries. beautiful, and terrifying ( if you take the long view)
    perhaps the prime mover started the first wave.
    perhaps he set the cosmological constant.
    perhaps he scooped organic slime into a tiny bay, and made sure all the ingerdients were in the right place, at the right time.
    i don’t know if he exists, and if he does, i don’t know how..
    but something in the back of my mind hopes so.
    you may accept all of this, or none of it, it’s simply offered as stuff to ponder. :)
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