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and a Blessed Easter!

Thanks, good article.

[TopQuark]

It seems to be obvious good sense that the less we understand about something, the more pointless it is.

The author is not a scientist, and has never experiences a scientific discovery. That "good sense" is from everyday experiences; they are not a good guidance in what we now know about, or do with, the universe.

[boris]

Some problems:

1. We seem to be quite alone. See Rare Earth. If we are a 'special creation', why should we be alone? The universe seems almost designed to prevent contact between intelligent species--even if there are any out there.

2. What is the purpose of building a 13-billion-year-old mess of gas, dust, stars, black holes, planets, radiation, etc...just so homo sapiens can emerge on a backwater planet of a third-rate star in the outskirts of an average galaxy?

Building an entire universe just to come up with us seems, well, profligate and wasteful. If God wanted us around, He could have simply produced us wherever He liked, without the accompanying clutter. Think of The Little Prince, for instance.

2a. This brings up the old conundrum of the 'Hiddenness' of God. If we are here for His purposes, and he has a Plan or direction for us, why does he not speak up and introduce Himself?

There sits Andromeda, bigger than ours. Are there intelligences there? We will probably never know. Suppose there are not. What is the 'purpose' of Andromeda?

3. We are badly designed. We are mayflies, existing for only a bare instant in the history of the Universe. We fall apart. Our own genes and bodies betray us. Designed to die. As (I think) Voltaire put it, 'had I been present at the Creation, I would have made some useful suggestions.' Why has the Almighty made us so poorly? Made us so short-lived? Filled our lives with pain and sorrow (as well as joy)?

--Boris

[beckett]

I read this article last week, thought about posting it on FR, and in the end decided I didn't want to deal with the sourpuss know-it-alls here who would claim that Wiker is not arguing reasonably, that he's "unqualified," that he's a prisoner of superstition, etc.

These people think the end of science is at hand, and that all the important questions have been answered, apparently. When I read their stuff I don't engage with them anymore. I just shake my head and laugh.

[RightWhale]

I have not the space in so short an article

Right. LOL. Bwahahahahahaha