The first in a series of short Sunday posts on science and religion – toward a religion where we don’t have to pretend anything.
Sunday August 4, 2019
How often have we heard “nothing happens by chance” or “everything happens for a reason” ?
When, in fact, we know from experience that more or less the opposite is true.
Science is right on this one. Chance is not only operative in the world, it forms the basis of everything that goes on. The deeper you dig into the fabric of the universe, quantum fields and such, the more this appears to be so.
So, in order to have a religion where we don’t have to pretend anything, the first thing we need to do is accept chance as central to the operation of the universe.
How this could be so, and why it does not necessarily stand in opposition to the existence of any god, is simple, obvious, and will be posted next week.
MOE
M.I.C.H. – Modernity, Intelligence, Complexity, Humanity