Well you take me back to my stance in that one thread, what Hume had said, "If it lies within the scope of mankind then it shall be discovered." And your argument and mine, is that it does not lie within that scope. But as I said, might as well make your selection of the best and perhaps the most comforting guess.
Perhaps you are right, but even in all of this conflict of ridiculous ideas of origins, ultimate entities and universal masterminds, one thing is evident. This world wasn't made. It wasn't assembled from parts as a creator would, working from the outside to the inside. It was grown, which is an entirely and altogether different concept. Even the motion isn't an assembly of parts, it's an expanding from something as simple as a seed, which gradually complicates itself. Therefore, we were not born into this world, we grew out of it. If evolution means anything at all, it means that.
Thus if there is a "God" in a traditional or even an untraditional fashion then it is the universe itself. A sentient universe. A consciousness contained with in itself, where even the rocks are alive and conscious to a degree. You think reductionism can reduce everything down to chemistry? You see what your average scientist emplores you to follow is that fundamentally consciousness is just a complicated form of geology and chemistry. So is it that far a step to say that geology and chemistry is a primative form of consciousness?
It's a question of perspective in the end. Either it's, you will someday cease to be and simply melt into a supposed "nothingness" from which all consciousness and life just some how manages to spring from, or you will simply meld back into the fold of the living universe itself.
*sigh* Whew, that was alot of Taoist jargon for one night. Anyway, perhaps I'm far off, but the above is my creedo and my faith.
-Omni
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