Most of life is about paying the bills.\u00a0 We work most of our days to pay for food, shelter and raising children.\u00a0 And for the most part we don\u2019t think too much about all this.\u00a0 After all what we do is the human analog of what very living creature on Earth has to do to keep its species alive into the future.\u00a0 And none of them question why exactly all this goes on.<\/p>\n
But when you get to a certain point and the end of the race is in sight and maybe you have a little more time on your hands than you used to, you might start asking some questions about what all of this is.\u00a0 This is called philosophy or religion or maybe just plain curiosity.\u00a0 One day you look around and think, \u201cHow the hell did this whole thing get started and where the hell is it going to end up?\u201d<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s a good question.\u00a0 The pessimist\u2019s answer is the whole thing is just a complete accident.\u00a0 Life itself is just a random occurrence that probably will just peter out and end when the sun dies in several billion years or maybe even sooner than that if some things go sideways for us here.\u00a0 Who knows?\u00a0 Maybe we ourselves will be responsible for the end of life.\u00a0 Some madman may decide it would be fun to figure out a way to kill off every last bacterium and virus and make it so that none could ever reappear on Earth again.\u00a0 It seems like a stupid idea but there are lots of crazy people and who\u2019s to say that a really smart crazy man might not take it into his head to do something like that.<\/p>\n
But there is definitely a sizable chunk of humanity that believe that we are here for a reason.\u00a0 They believe in some kind of God.\u00a0 Not necessarily the personal God of the Bible.\u00a0 Some think there is some sort of universal spirit that is associated with all life or maybe just human life.\u00a0 And it\u2019s safe to say they have no way of ever proving what they believe in is real.\u00a0 I\u2019ve heard lots of people trying to prove God\u2019s existence.\u00a0 And I don\u2019t think anyone has ever come up with anything that would convince an atheist that he is wrong.<\/p>\n
No, the belief is not based on proof.\u00a0 But at the same time, I don\u2019t think for the most part it\u2019s wish fulfillment.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s a form of intuition.\u00a0 Some people look around and say I just don\u2019t believe that all of this is the result of random chance working out over the course of several billion years.\u00a0 It\u2019s like that old idea that if a billion monkeys typed on a billion typewriters (word processors) for a billion years that they would come up with the Complete Works of William Shakespeare.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s a case of not letting large numbers intimidate you.\u00a0 I can understand that over the course of geologic time mountains can turn into valleys and stars can explode.\u00a0 But how does that create Mozart or Shakespeare or even you?\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t compute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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