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A question for believers: What do you imagine a universe that came about via natural laws entirely without intervention would look like?

Would it perhaps be mostly empty and inhospitable to human life? Would it be confusing and strange to our intuitions which only evolved to deal with things close to our everyday lives? Would it contain evil since animals and people who came about naturally would have had in their evolutionary development evolutionary incentives to do harm for gain? Would supernatural entities, since they don't exist in this scenario, be limited to people's imaginations, vague old stories and unverifiable anecdotes?

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  • Mog
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    It may very well be mostly inhospitable to human life. But nothing in these natural laws require the human race to evolve in the way that we did. Without knowing exactly what sparked inorganic material into living organisms, we can say that the existence of life does so on a contingency.

    I guess in other words, we could have either not been at all, or we could have evolved radically different than we have. We could have evolved to live in space, or suffice to say, in circumstances that are more inhospitable than we can handle as it is now.

    In mostly every other way, the universe could have developed in much the same way as it has. If evil is the privation of being, any being that is complex enough would be capable of it.

    However, I would like to go out on a limb and say that I'd put money on a theory that could show that due to the complexity and infinite vastness of the universe, these natural laws could actually produce entities that, in our limited knowledge of all that is in existence, we call supernatural.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    6 years ago

    Although I accept Gods existence, I don't know if the universe needed a cause or not.

  • 6 years ago

    I keep asking Atheists Where their very first atom could have come from? Pop out of nothing and alive, without any Ox to even breath? None have answered this

  • 6 years ago

    But universe includes the natural laws does it not?

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