My spell check screwed me on the Evolution thing. I didn't even look at the option it gave me. The spell check I usually use is set up specifically for dyslexia and it takes into account that I may often use the right letters but put them in the wrong order. So it almost always gives me the right option the first time. Anyway......... I was just using the normal firefox spell check when I wrote that and I forgot to look closely at what it gave me.
Anyway I pretty much would have answered exactly the same as you on every question. Except for the first question.
Do you have a belief about why/how we (Humans, life, existence as a whole) are/is here, or is it just good enough not to know?
I believe that we as humans or even life in general are here as a coincidence. I think the idea that we are special is just human arrogance. That the earth is a specific distance from the sun to allow life. That the gravity is just perfect to form the planets that are necessary for life to exist . I think it's all coincidence. There are an uncountable number of planets in the universe. And I'm sure what exists on some of those would be just as amazing as life. I don't even think life it's self is special. Humans are just a group of interacting particles. We are not even the only known way that partials interact. Even a chemical reaction is an interaction of particles.
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things exist. Well the first thing I will say on that, it that as far as I can figure "nothing" is an abstract idea. I have never seen this so called "nothing". I could search my whole life, even go into the the depths of space and I couldn't find "nothing".
Nano particles pop in and out of existence and even the emptiest of space is teaming with particles and energy. And yes I do think these these energy's created the big bang.
I also believe in a multiverse (That out universe is just one of an infinite number of universes). And to me that just adds on the possibilities and makes it more likely that we are just a meaningless happenstance.
Not to say that I would be crushed if one day science disproves that idea wrong. After all science is always finding out new things and correcting it's own mistakes. That's why I love science.
Also on the question "Do you feel religion causes more good or bad in the world?"
You wrote "Bad. All the charities in the world do not make up for the avocation and approval of ignorance masquerading as knowledge."
I will agree with that fully. Not to mention all the blood shed that it is still causing in the middle east and other parts of the world. And I would like to add that I think that most of the charities would still be there even if religion was gone. I don't buy into the idea that people need religion to have morality (obviously because I am atheist). I think, for the most part, the same people would act the same way and have the same dispositions. I think those who do charity work still would. After all, ever 'Harry Potter' has more than one charity organization attached to it.
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