Political Humor | The Deep Freeze: Intelligent Design

I was reading a post by Mike , from The Deep Freeze last night in which he gave some commentary on the Intelligent Design Debate. It got the ol’ cogs in my head spinning a little, and I was thinking at work that I would blog about it.

In the Intelligent Debate post, he asserted that

I find it hard to believe all of this started by chance 5 billion years ago when a meteor hit the planet sparking a little puddle of proteins and aminoacids to produce an amoeba that would grow and split to populate our planet into the complex environment we see today. I can’t believe this is all luck.

He also said:

I think there is an intelligent being, who I call God, that created this earth.

So what I wrote in the comments section was:

I think that there is a greater form of life, which I do not call God. I call it the Universe. From life comes life.

This comment spurred Mike to write a new post, called Philosophical Discussion. So, first off, how cool is that? I make a comment, and he starts a new post about it! He says it piqued his interest, and hoped that I would elaborate, and elaborate I will.

See, my basic theory is that the Universe itself is a form of life. Some religions have this type of belief as well. However, I don’t “worship” nature per se. I have a great awe of nature, it’s beauty and complexity. Even though I think of the Universe as a life form, I don’t see it as being something that is aware of the minute goings on within it, so I would never buy into a theory that our Earth mother Gaia is punishing us for harming her, or anything else that attributes a conscious interference with our lives.

The reason for my saying that was Mike’s assertion that it can’t all be luck. What I was trying to say is that there is a way for there to be a creative force without being an actual Creator. If the Universe itself is alive, then it’s not incidental that there is life within it. In fact, it makes complete sense for life to exist within it. This would also mean that there is likely other intelligent beings, on other life bearing planets, however, I don’t think they have ever been here.

I subscribe to the notion of the multiverse, which is that the term “universe” is actually inaccurate. Just as there are many galaxies, there are perhaps uncountable Universes. These universes are probably born in somewhat of a similar fashion to the life cycle of a star. This would be consistent with the “Big Bang” theory as well.

Sure, you could run into the roadblock of, “Where does the multiverse come from?” But I see that as exactly the same stumper as, “Where does God come from?” Somewhere along the line Science will always fail us, because science is dependent upon our abilities to observe, think, and reason. These abilities are limited, therefore, we may never know.

What I do know is that this theory makes sense to me. It is consistent with all plausible theories of physics, quantum mechanics, string theory, and so on. A belief in a divine creator can be consistent as well, but religious dogmas tend to force an incompatibility where there shouldn’t be one.

I highly recommend a book called Hyperspace, by Michio Kaku. It is well written, and pretty easy for the average person to understand. It is mostly about String theory, and the 10 dimensional universe, but explores some other areas of theoretical science. It’s not boring either, unless you have no interest in where we all come from, and how. Then it’s boring.

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