Oh why not?
Adam and Eve are right out.
Two central points in this debate keep me wondering.
The first is what created anything to be created in the first place. Before there was a universe, just what was there and why was it there? If the entire matter of the universe as we know it was packed into a ball the size of Earth, then where did it come from and, more importantly, can physics answer why it needed to be there. Mass just doesn't pop into existance in our universe.
The second is the fact that at least some of this mass became self-aware. Think about that for a second. Imagine your table or rear window wiper suddenly considering whether a dress makes it look fat. That's essentially what's happening with us. Some bundles of atoms formed molecules that formed amino acids that became a soupy sort of life which eventually resulted in bundles of molecules that sing, dance, cry, and study other molecules.
Now, if I consider that the universe consists of mass and energy, then what the hell is life? It is unique that mass requires energy to be life and, further, that life replicates itself. Why does life need to replicate itself? Mass doesn't and neither does energy until they take on the life force. Nowhere in the universe that we know of is there any other natural process that replicates itself ad infinitum.
Given these circumstances, despite what we do know, there is vastly more we do not know if we simply change life from being a province of biology to one of physics. And that's excluding the question which haunts all of biology, Where does life come from? Einstein said that, "God does not play dice with the universe," and even accepting the use of the word, God, as a euphemism for physical laws, we're still left with the question of what purpose life serves in a universe where everything else has cause and effect.
My time-locked mind cannot truly imagine a god without beginning or end. A googolplex of a googolplex of a googolplex of some unimagined length of time would have to have passed before nothing became something, yet in this blink of an eye of ten or so billion years, here everything is. A god would have to decide nothing is good and then decide something is better and such irrationality in a perfect being makes no sense to me particularly since a god would know that later in time it would be dissatisfied with having nothing. And to that end, I have to believe then that there has never been nothing but instead perhaps an infinite number of universes ever created over the entirety of all time. The god cannot help but endlessly create since we know creation to be good to the god. If creation is good then it must always be good and, therefore, perpetuated.
The similarities between godhead and life are uncanny in that respect. Both are extraphysical manifestations which do not fit the rules of the universe yet at least one of them exists. Ultimately, life replicates itself as the god may replicate itself by endlessly creating universes in which it can exist. So if the god exists, then I tend to think life is part of the god itself. Otherwise, I can see no science-answerable reason as to the purpose of life in relation to the universe.
Is the god (or gods) sentient? Is the god self-aware? Can we influence the gods via prayer or wish? Are there souls? I do not know but I suspect that these things are true though for reason not applicable to this argument.
Sorry mem, you should have given us the choice of both.
for political purposes and mindcontrol doesn't make it bad in itself. And eventhough science has been abused by materialists and eventhough evolutiontheory isn't backed up with evidence or clearly demonstrated(apart from in the mind of the artist who can create drawings based on incomplete eroded fossils)that doesn't mean that science is bad.
