Todays atheistic topic is …. WATER. (Insert crappy game show music here).
I’m not quite sure how an atheist has a point of view on water, but we’ll see what happens. All ‘life’ as ‘we’ know it relies on water. Nay, it depends on water; it cannot exist without water. What if, Oxygen had been opposed to a three-way with hydrogen and hydrogen? Think about that, what if oxygen had been a selfish priss? We…..well we wouldn’t be here to think about it I guess.
Does that mean that water is here for a special reason? Is it coincidental that water exists at all? I say yes. Some, perhaps many will argue that water was made special by God to facilitate the existence of life. (This train of thought leads to an ugly can of worms that I am not going to open at this moment).
If it is coincidental, and those coincidences didn’t occur 'just so', we wouldn’t be here to even question it. Therefore, our very existence does not require the existence of some supreme holy almighty deity. It just requires the right set of circumstances. If water as we know it wasn’t stable there would be two options.
1) Life would be unable to exist at all and the universe would be a void and desolate place with no creepy crawlers to start wars.
2) Life would still exist, perhaps in a different form and not depend on water. Perhaps it would depend on gallium, or alcohol (not so different than some of the life forms currently in existence) and we would still have ridiculous squabbles.
This line of arguing harkens back to the quote (not sure from whom or where about monkey and typewriters).
‘Given an infinite number of monkeys on an infinite number of typewriters for infinity, Hamlet will be written’
Something along that line, if you know the actual quote I would welcome it.
Yet another pre-coffee rant. I really need to stop this and get my coffee before I start blabbering.
6 comments:
Thanks for the compliment. I'm not sure if I'm all that good of a writer but I do enjoy a good rant (occasionally before my coffee ?!?!).
As for school I am currently working on my Masters of Science.
Oh, please, let's not make Hamlet of questionable authorship.
Let's, instead, just assume the monkeys were wanting alittle diversion and produced an abundance of divisive, conflicting Scripture.
I like scripture being written by monkeys much better =-]
Mike - straight from the horses mouth if you wil. "One who disbelieves or denies the existence of God or gods." (www.dictionary.com).
I was raised as a Roman Catholic. Went to a Roman Catholic School. I was confirmed..the whole deal. But as I began to get older I began to question my faith. Not in a hope to destroy it, but rather to strengthen it and better understand it. What ended up happening was that I discovered the foundations were in my opinion false. So I take the stand of 'Doubting Thomas' in a sense. 'Show me the holes in his hands and the slash in his side'.
There is sth peculiar in the way u write..If u ask me what? I wouldn't be able to say..
perhaps I have to come again to read more .. :-)
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