Briefly, because I'm tired and battling typos...
Suffice it to say that it is not superstitious to believe that there is something analogous to Mind behind the universe, even if it is otherwise alien and beyond our ken, and even if you do not find any argument conclusive.
Why is it not superstitious? We have no proof, one way or another. So why believe in something for which we have no evidence, which we can't understand, and can't know?
Given that, certain things will be plausible, at least, as, for example, that It takes an historical interest in us.
That's a huge given.
And even then... why us, in all the universe?
I think I have the root... geocentricism lives on. Basically, no one likes to think that they don't matter. First Eden was at the centre of the universe, then the world, then the Sun, then the solar system, then (maybe) our galaxy... it's not nice to think there's nothing special about us.
But there isn't, necessarily - yet we are here still, and think, and breathe, and improve. I regard this as special enough!
And I hope we're not alone in the universe, also - but I don't attribute supernatural powers and a divine regard over to some other race/being/pixie... no matter how reassuring it might feel, that we have a protector and a purpose beyond that of any other life... |
