ideologyhunter
Contributor
Didn't realize this Organizing Mind did such masterful work in making the universe orderly and fine-tuned.
> possibility of an asteroid strike on earth big enough to destroy all life
> species extinctions in earth's history; just ask my pet trilobite
> the sun to become a red giant in 5 billion years, making earth a cinder
> the neuromuscular diseases; alzheimers; idiopathic cancers (let these stand in for a fuller list)
> Plasmodium, which is the malaria parasite; can't forget a shout-out for Naegleria fowleri (the brain-eating amoeba; it's popular at HHS)
> tsunamis and other fine-tuned events
Some entity planned all this -- and I am to stand in speechless awe of It?
It's also worth pondering this Organizing Mind's coyness and irresistible sense of humor, peeking from behind the curtain as the Panglosses among us ferret out Its wondrous existence, but never deigning to appear. Apparently the OM is okay with a multiplicity of human explanations, in the form of bizarre scriptures in a multitude of traditions, over which humanity has proven perfectly happy in hacking each other to pieces, burning, hanging, looting, exterminating the people of the "other explanations."
> possibility of an asteroid strike on earth big enough to destroy all life
> species extinctions in earth's history; just ask my pet trilobite
> the sun to become a red giant in 5 billion years, making earth a cinder
> the neuromuscular diseases; alzheimers; idiopathic cancers (let these stand in for a fuller list)
> Plasmodium, which is the malaria parasite; can't forget a shout-out for Naegleria fowleri (the brain-eating amoeba; it's popular at HHS)
> tsunamis and other fine-tuned events
Some entity planned all this -- and I am to stand in speechless awe of It?
It's also worth pondering this Organizing Mind's coyness and irresistible sense of humor, peeking from behind the curtain as the Panglosses among us ferret out Its wondrous existence, but never deigning to appear. Apparently the OM is okay with a multiplicity of human explanations, in the form of bizarre scriptures in a multitude of traditions, over which humanity has proven perfectly happy in hacking each other to pieces, burning, hanging, looting, exterminating the people of the "other explanations."