Re "This is why evolution isn’t the place where the mystery gets solved, but where the mystery announces itself." This has been true from the beginning ... and religion solved none of it. Pointing out that there is much we do not know and much we need to explain doesn't imply a god at all, just the status quo on this planet.
Suppose the universe is more than something that started with the Big Bang. Suppose that a previous universe had collapsed into something like a black hole once it started contracting as part of its cycle. The Big Bang restarted the expansion and everything was a massive plasma. The system organized the plasma into elements which further precipated into stars and planets made up of compound molecules. Quantum physics may ultimately tell us that electrons were entangled and that the ultimate little bundles of energy in atoms self organized into the equivalent of a massive quantum computer faintly blinded to us via the entangled electrons. That quantum computer is the field of consciousness--God.
I like that. Reading The DaVinci Code got me interested in phi and the mathematical patterns ubiquitous in nature. Though I nearly flunked physics and never took chemistry, I was always fascinated by math and logic.
I believe if there is a higher power, it is more like The Force than a god that helps you find your car keys. A very mathematical entity, or, as you say, computer.
You are extremely well read and can think deeply about many subjects. The superpower 'behind' the various physical and chemical entities that made biological evolution possible is hardly the God of various religions. This superpower cannot worshipped or prayed to.
More importantly, here is some food for thought for you:
Spirituality is related to Biology exactly the way Biology is related to Chemistry.
It is mindbogling when you present it like this in just the right way for me to get a grasp but no final answer. Knowing is a process never reached but always collapses in unknowing and that's the mystery and beauty of it all.
A roller coaster ride through science, chemisry and biology; all at once. I feel out of breath!
Re "This is why evolution isn’t the place where the mystery gets solved, but where the mystery announces itself." This has been true from the beginning ... and religion solved none of it. Pointing out that there is much we do not know and much we need to explain doesn't imply a god at all, just the status quo on this planet.
Suppose the universe is more than something that started with the Big Bang. Suppose that a previous universe had collapsed into something like a black hole once it started contracting as part of its cycle. The Big Bang restarted the expansion and everything was a massive plasma. The system organized the plasma into elements which further precipated into stars and planets made up of compound molecules. Quantum physics may ultimately tell us that electrons were entangled and that the ultimate little bundles of energy in atoms self organized into the equivalent of a massive quantum computer faintly blinded to us via the entangled electrons. That quantum computer is the field of consciousness--God.
I like that. Reading The DaVinci Code got me interested in phi and the mathematical patterns ubiquitous in nature. Though I nearly flunked physics and never took chemistry, I was always fascinated by math and logic.
I believe if there is a higher power, it is more like The Force than a god that helps you find your car keys. A very mathematical entity, or, as you say, computer.
You are extremely well read and can think deeply about many subjects. The superpower 'behind' the various physical and chemical entities that made biological evolution possible is hardly the God of various religions. This superpower cannot worshipped or prayed to.
More importantly, here is some food for thought for you:
Spirituality is related to Biology exactly the way Biology is related to Chemistry.
It is mindbogling when you present it like this in just the right way for me to get a grasp but no final answer. Knowing is a process never reached but always collapses in unknowing and that's the mystery and beauty of it all.
A roller coaster ride through science, chemisry and biology; all at once. I feel out of breath!
Thanks 😊