They Get Hate Mail

David Attenborough does some programmes on Darwin, and the religious Loons freak out and send him really nasty letters.

The issue, as I see it, is that there is absolutely no evidence what-so-ever that there is some "designer" involved in the universe. There's none.. zero.. zip.. nada.

Conversely, there is a shit ton of research in biology which proposes theories and presents evidence of how it happened. It stands up against rigorous scrutiny, peer review, and the scientific method.

The question then becomes.. why does the Loon Brigade flip out about the science? They become absolutely hysterical, and maniacal.

It's called "faith" for a reason. It's believing in something absent any evidence, for the purposes of addressing whatever emotional need you might have.

Why do they flip out when somebody says, "you have no evidence of that.. this is what the real evidence shows"? Is it because they have a tremendous need to feel less crazy by everyone else thinking the same way?

Look.. you can have a God.. I have one.. his name is Gorak.. and I don't know a single thing about the nature of Gorak, because there is no evidence of that nature. However.. we're all here.. we all think.. for a time anyway.. and we do things and observe the world. Whatever spun that into motion is Gorak.. and it could be an accident.. a fluke.. or it could be a magic man with a plan.. sitting on a cloud. I don't know.. and neither does the Loon Brigade.

I respect atheists.. but it seems a rather absolutist dogma. I'm not sure I really understand atheism, in all it's complexity, but I get the sense that they are sure there is no god... no thing that set the universe in motion. That seems awfully determined to me, in light of all the endless possibilities.

I guess.. I use the label "Deist", without the "intelligent" component. It's not really agnosticism.. because they don't know.. don't care.. and will either find out when they die, or not.. I'm thinking more along the lines that there is something. Don't know what it is.. but that I'm here typing this.. means that something beyond just me had an effect on something.. that had an effect on something else, multiplied by the largest number possible.. and bam.. here I am.

The rest.. is just some of the stupidest shit imaginable.. destructive beyond measure.. and destined to be thought of as a silly primitive superstition.

When the Loon Brigade argues that everyone who doesn't believe the myths exactly as they do will "burn in a lake of fire". I giggle... and pity.. and wonder how they actually manage to form a coherent thought when the need arises.

And the Loon Brigade.. well.. they like people like me, because they are convinced that I'll get what's coming to me. They'll feel vindicated when I'm cast in the fiery pits of hell.. because all the nonsense that they put up with was worth it in the end.. it was all true!

Uh huh

For me, the thing that bakes my noodle.. is if time really is circular, repeating itself over and over.. never having had a beginning.. never having an end. I know.. Alpha and Omega.. right? That's not what I'm saying at all. Gorak is the original cause.. but it's possible there was no original cause and everything is as it is going back an infinity of time before the big bang... only to find a time when it comes back around again.

That would mean.. there is no Gorak.. and there is no way to explain why anything exists, because it's always existed, and there was nothing that put it into motion.

I just don't understand how a thing could not have had a beginning... so I'll stick with Gorak as the likely cause.

Of course.. that leaves me with the chicken and egg problem.. but I solve that simply by popping a percocet and having a nice Belgian beer... mmmmm...