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[ninjahedge]

I resent the idea that, somehow, if all the world was nothing more then a gigantic chemical reaction, it would be profoundly less beautiful and mysterious. I do think the world is one gigantic chemical reaction, and once you come to grips with that, the world is a much more beautiful place. We certainly find a sunset beautiful, and we know that to be nothing more then light refraction. How less beautiful then are the intricate chemical reactions that take place in one square inch of our world? How less mysterious and overwhelming is the entirety of our planet? Is it somehow less beautiful because these things weren't put in place by some old man in the sky? When I look into the eyes of a woman, it does not bother me that her eyes were not designed to be beautiful, in fact, that would be extremely disappointing. I am profoundly moved by the idea that the very physical laws of our universe, the very nature of everything is that of beauty, compassion, and love, that the beauty of her eyes is what fell in place after billions of years of complex reactions.

Saying the universe is just a chemical reaction is often dismissed as "too simple" of an answer. What really is the simple answer? That somebody just randomly decided this is the way things are going to be, or that billions of years of complex reactions all over the universe led to this moment right now. That this moment right now isn't some dude in the sky deciding against the natural course of things that he would rather have beauty then uglieness, but that this moment *is* the universe following the natural course of things. That this moment is the universe's expression of it's purpose, wonder, and love.