A Brief Encounter with a Christian Under the Stars

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11. You don't see evidence of consciousness, or see purpose or justice or love built in. And yet...

there they are in you and me. Wonder how they got there. To the extent that "I" exist, I can assure you it wasn't me who made them, not this one ego-centric life that is. It seems to me we are partaking in these things that have existed long before you or I got here. It's no different than saying the Earth is the center of the universe if we assume such complex things as consciousness, purpose, justice, or love exist only here. Randomness reminds me of the million monkey theory only far more monkeys and not just the works of Shakespeare. You don't have to believe in a God of a human religion to seriously consider that forces in the universe figured out how to create life, purpose, consciousness, justice, and love long before the Earth was around and that there is a drive or purpose to manifest these things here and elsewhere. Maybe it was randomness that somehow brought these concepts into being in the absolute beginning but it's difficult for me to believe that even the current theory of the age of this universe is enough time for that. Who knows. What a great mystery.