Creation

David Hume, in one of his foundational works (I forget the title, and seem to have purged the book from my shelf), proposed, as one option, that our universe was designed by committee.  He argued that, based on what we know, it could be one God, two gods, many gods, quarreling gods, or a committee, among many other possibilities.  We don’t talk with God, directly, the way we talk with one another, so who knows? 

Even now, we guess, using science, and it is my understanding that our best known guess, the Big Bang Theory, has some bit theoretical problems.  As I understand it, there is at least one place in the math where they have inserted “and then a miracle happens” to make it work.  Honestly, it’s as good as anything, but it still requires faith.  What requires that degree of faith has not yet risen to the standard we call fully “scientific”.  It is an activity that is done by scientists, and called science, but it is still educated guesswork.

I would like to propose my own idea, based on a spiritual understanding of things.  What if the universe, the visible universe, which is a very, very small fraction of what is, was created by advanced beings, but not God, and what if it was created for the very specific purpose of furthering spiritual evolution?  What if this creation is on-going, and filled with a lot of fuck-ups they are still trying to fix?  What if Earth, specifically, was groomed for life, one of the first in many, many efforts at creating this form of life, this form of hard life, this form of mechanical life, which was successful?

I am not proposing this as true.  I have no idea.  I am proposing it as POSSIBLE, just as Hume’s ideas were possible, and INTERESTING.  Expand your mind.  Can’t hurt anything.

And to be clear, Hume did not propose all those ideas to mock them, or to say that any or all of them were clearly untrue.  He simply said “we don’t know”.  I have long said that agnosticism is the only intelligent option for people who do not want to study the evidence of God. Atheism is an act of faith mislabeled as an act of reason.