Why is it so hard to believe humanity is a cosmic accident?

Question

I think it's humbling, but it doesn't bother me.

Answer 1

I agree. And to your first poster, beauty in that sense is a confrontation with something enormous and humbling. The night sky is such a thing, and I don't have to think there are angels among those stars to be humbled.

Answer 2

Okay: What kind of accident do you know of that works so intricuitly? Everything on this planet has a purpose, the good and the bad. Have you taken a look at the construct of a human brain?? It was definately not an accident that our neuroconnecters can rearrange themselves so that our vision is 'clearer' so to speak.. It is SO complex, mistakes arent THAT complex...


There aren't angels behind the stars, the angels ARE the stars.. The grass.. the sky, the dirt.. the rivers, lakes, oceans, each and every flower...

And, Im also not saying there's a ginormous white dude sitting somewhere watching us. Definately not.

I believe that everything is nothing. And within that nothingness, our "cosmic power" decided to divide ourselves throughout the universe. Like, all the planets were intricuitely mapped out individually, and they ALL intertwine on some grand level.
So, with illusion, we divided ourselves and the left over bits we shattered stars across the universe (which by the way, is actually infinately expanding)

Answer 3

It is very humbling and awe inspiring as well. We are a cosmic anomaly we started out as a simple life form that expanded to what we are today. It is life's spirit and will to survive that keeps it going and changing. How else would you explain certain oddities and imperfections that sometime happen and manage to survive against the odds. No matter how we feel we came into existence the only point worth agreeing is the pure fact that we are here and we can enjoy the freedom of being and existing.

Answer 4

People have a hard time with the phrase "cosmic accident" because of the negative connotations associated with the word "accident". And because the theories behind the conclusions require mastery of many disciplines of science, people latch on to simplistic explanations which distort the facts.

Either way, there's no real perspective at all from which to label it as an accident or not. As a professor once told me, "either everything's a miracle, or nothing is". It's a matter of perspective.

Answer 5

Well,if you want to consider your ancestors and yourself as rearranged pond scum,then that's your business.So far, from a materialistic point of view.Wouldn't you agree that if life came from non organic material,wouldn't it be easy to recreate life?Sounds simple enough to me.They have spent years trying to do this.Stanley Miller spent his entire life trying to do this.Creating amino acids is not success.Then you have to contend with the T Rex bone that has live cells and blood vessels still alive.They were supposed to be extinct billions of years ago.From an evolution presupposition,there should be no living tissue at all.No matter how it was buried.Bet somebody has cloned one of those beasts by now.Then you have to figure out why there is not intermediate fossils to examine.Every fossil that has ever been claimed to be an intermediate has been debunked more than once.It's amazing how deadly an evolutionary mindset is.It's never mentioned.Maybe they think it's too hard for the general public to acknowledge.Evolution has left a bloody trail for all to see.All 100,000,000 of them.That's not counting the victims of Columbine and Virginia Tech.

Answer 6

1) Because it requires for information to evolve randomly. It's like getting a monkey to type the works of Shakespeare.
2) Because it requires for intelligence to arise from non-intelligent matter.
3) Because it requires consciousness to arise from unconscious matter.
4) Because if we are, there is no moral difference between killing a man and killing a snail, since they're both nothing more than a cosmic accident.

Finally, I would argue it's more humbling to believe that there is a God. To do so requires admitting that there is something higher than us to which we must conform and that we are not free to create our own values as we please.

Answer 7

I think because people have a need for everything to be more. Heck they want our life to have some purpose they want it to have some meaning. I mean look at the concept of the after-life (which confuses me) people just want everything they do to have meaning in the universe. Just being a cosmic accident kind of goes against everything the want and so it is resisted

Answer 8

Because the sun goes down and the sun comes up.
Because the tide rolls in and the tide rolls out.
Because I have the sun in the morning and the moon in the evening, I'm alright.
No accident. A creative force at work and like it or not we all have to justify our behavior before we get to go to the next plane of existence. Also, if this were a cosmic accident then one could rape, rob, murder and molest children and commit heinous acts over and over and, if not caught by the law, die without consequence. Can't happen that way. In the end there will always be The Consequence to pay. Poetic Justice.

Answer 9

I think it should bother you!

However, more humbling should be what we know to be true from the scriptures. God made man in his image, in the image of God he created them, male and female! God called them mankind...., and commanded them, saying "Be fruitful and multiply, replenish the earth and subdue it. Have dominion upon every creature that moves upon the sea, the earth and the air...." I think this is not only humbling, but also a bit scary!

Don't you think Asker?..........

Debra M asked, "Have you ever seen such a beautiful accident? I haven't."..........I haven't either!!

Answer 10

It is humbling isn't?

I can't believe the woman above is still using the watch metaphor....please if you're going to use dumb examples, use the jet in the junkyard metaphor, the watch is sooo 1830s