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Tao Stoic 109

"Master, I spoke with physical scientists, and they often were so surprised with the logical ordening they found in physics, that they assumed a god, a creator who ordened it all."

"It usually happens that when one is in trouble, i.e. has a question or surprise (after all, all ideation is problemsolving), one reaches out for the first thing of explanation that comes to mind and that is a 'sperrit', a god. It is childish, that is to say, ontogenetically primitive. Because Phylo = Onto, it is also phylogenetically primitive.

When you are a true scientist, you observe and wonder about the perfect (?) order of things and then, you study its cause(s). You, then, get to know Spencer's theorema that says: 'Because a) all causes have more than one effect, and b) all effects are causes, evolution is the result'. Evolution, the steady increase in complexity during time, thus, need not be caused by a god. Complexity in events, just increases and the later one looks, the more flabbergasting it seems. Then, there is the ordening of (by) living molecules. Here, pure physics suddenly acquired 'activity', 'Mind' (that is: ideation, emotion, ego, well-being etc. ), on top of its passivity. It meant that now life itself could see to a (beneficial) increase in complexity and literally race through evolution, by reproduction and beneficial mutation. It caused an increase in complexity of a totally different order of 'Order'.

Another scientific principle is Occcam's razor, the Law of Parsimony. It says that: 'No more causes be assumed than are necessary to explain the phenomenon. Thus, you need no god to explain te facts of life, so leave it (him, her, them) out."


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Ven 2005-01-24