OMG My mind is melting!

[myhk]

I had a trippy discussion today at lunch!

Scott: Al I never really saw you as an agnostic theist, what prompted you to decide on this belief structure?

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[i_am_erihxc]

I like this. Ten points.

Your arguments are well thought-out.

Personally, my reasoning behind some form of a higher power (whatever it may be; a god of some kind, just a shifting flow of positive and negative energy, et cetera) is that matter cannot be created or destroyed. So, something outside of the physical realm (something in a "spiritual" or extra-natural plane of existence) must have set this into motion.

Out of several billion planets in this universe, the odds of one (or many more) supporting life of some form are quite high.

Perhaps, we're just a statistic; a seemingly massive (by our own perspective, of course) combination of tiny factors (climate changes, the right molecules combining to form amino acids, etc.) adding up to aerobic life.

Chaos: It is a beautiful thing.

Perhaps religion of all types (including science; the belief that logic and physical laws, instead of some deity, rule us) are mankinds way of simplifying something that it was/is simply not ready to truly understand or accept.

::shrugs::

What are some good books one can use to read up on this type of thing?

Everything I just ran on about was just my best, semi-uneducated guess as to how things work.