Disagree, depending on how you define higher being. If it’s just an ineffable force, that’s just a metaphor for random big bang bullshit. Sure maybe antimatter-matter reactions are the face of god, whatever.
But if you imply there is some sort of intelligence making choices? No that requires not just tremendous faith but magical thinking. It requires not just inventing a deity for which no evidence exists, but means which all experience tells us aren’t real.
It’s like if you believe Uri Gellar can bend spoons with his mind, you’re not just believing in that but you’re also believing in a force that would allow him to do so, and a brain section or something that enables tapping into that force, and that it’s impossible to detect or manipulate that force in any other way.
Magical thinking is exponential, because the more questions you ask, the more magic is required to explain it. Or, vastly more likely, none of it is true.
Disagree, depending on how you define higher being. If it’s just an ineffable force, that’s just a metaphor for random big bang bullshit. Sure maybe antimatter-matter reactions are the face of god, whatever.
But if you imply there is some sort of intelligence making choices? No that requires not just tremendous faith but magical thinking. It requires not just inventing a deity for which no evidence exists, but means which all experience tells us aren’t real.
It’s like if you believe Uri Gellar can bend spoons with his mind, you’re not just believing in that but you’re also believing in a force that would allow him to do so, and a brain section or something that enables tapping into that force, and that it’s impossible to detect or manipulate that force in any other way.
Magical thinking is exponential, because the more questions you ask, the more magic is required to explain it. Or, vastly more likely, none of it is true.