RE: Letters From Darwin - The Religion Of Evolution
Well, this is complicated subject. To me the most important question is'Is there consciousness beyond physical reality?'
If your conclusion is yes, then that open many more doors to talk about. It imply that some form of intelligence exist beyond physical form forever. Then that imply we don't need physical body to exist, but like we can see right now you have it. So next question is who build our bodies way there are. Is that creation from intelligence from beyond physical reality to have experience physical experience or our bodies are part of evolution of physical reality itself.
If we take hypothesis that some form of consciousness can create whatever world, I think we shouldn't explain it more in that sense. It just can create.
If we take hypothesis that intelligent life came from nothing when two molecules collided by accident , that raises many question to me. First one is how those two molecules colliding created consciousness? Don't see any evidence that two molecules can create consciousness out of nothing and start chain that we should call evolution. Yes, colliding of molecules can create some form of chemical reaction, but that doesn't mean those reaction couldn't me programmed by some intelligence.
The answer is quite demonstrably, no.
Nobody is claiming that.
Unfortunately most people misunderstand how evolution works, so they come up with a lot of wild theories of their own, not realising that evolution has been thoroughly researched and tested, again and again, and again . . .
Cg
If I understand, you are saying consciousness is product of material reality? If so, what is the process of material world creating consciousness?
For the record, I have totally opposite opinion of that.
Consciousness is just a word we use to describe the interaction between our brains and bodies. It cannot be pinned down to one area of the brain, however that does not make it mystical in any way, it simply means we cannot describe it yet, in the same way how at one point we couldn't adequately describe what stars were.
At that point some people decided to call stars angels, or aliens, or whatever mystical story they could think of, however that didn't detract away from the reality that stars were other suns, sometimes they represented entire galaxies.
So consciousness is something we cannot yet adequately describe, however we do know that it does not reside outside of the brain, many tests have determined this, and nobody is yet to prove otherwise.
So in that sense, I guess that's the long way of saying it is part of material reality, because without that reality, there is no consciousness. The process of creating a material world, that can create beings to appreciate it, is well explained via the Big Bang theory and evolution.
Of course we run into another area we can't adequately describe, what happened before the Big Bang. I am happy with the simple answer, we don't know yet. Others, will again, like they have been throughout history, be happy to fill that ignorance with magic and mysticism, god, aliens, cosmic vibrations or whatever.
At one point we close that gap in knowledge, and the magic jumps back to another gap. Every time we find out something we did not know before, the answer has never been magic, it is always something amazing, but explainable and ultimately, predictable.
Cg
Don't know is there one proof for Big Bang. The 'proofs' for Big Bang are just speculations.
To not write long comment here, I'm gonna write about it soon as I planned already. But in short there were many who experienced NDE and OBE, some people who can consciously leave their body and have OBE, people who are experts Remote viewers and many other examples. That all combined can tell there is more to it then just activity in brain.
So it wouldn't be I'm saying only someone else experiences, I had many experiences of my own, some of them I will describe in next few articles.