While others are fixated on what they want, and plough on blindly and miserably.
Following religious leaders may have negative effects. An honest desire to know and serve God, never does.
The feeling of awe engendered when contemplating the majesty of the universe is, for me, akin to a spiritual experience. So, yeah, I feel closer to God when observing the Milky Way, when thinking about space and time, or when marvelling that the Universe gave rise to conscious beings capable of...
Depends what you mean by “life itself”. Personally I think Ecclesiastes can tell us things about the experience of being human, which science couldn’t even begin to address.
Miraculous as in astonishingly improbable, invoking awe, wonder, and humility.
Seen from this perspective, that there are laws and constants of nature, may be regarded as a miracle in itself.
Yeah, Jeff Bezos is engaged in a plot to discredit capitalism by ruthlessly exploiting his own workers, thereby hastening the revolution. Or something.
And that's what you need to find. We are all free to form our own relationship with a Higher Power of our own understanding, and while guidance from a trusted source may be useful, no one can tell you how or what to believe.
If you were to find some method of assigning probabilities, the second scenario would surely be somewhere in excess of one chance in 10^73. So even if the probability of the first scenario being historically accurate was one in a million, it would still be far more likely.
Weeding is a terrible analogy. People weed their flower beds and vegetable plots carefully and selectively. Israel is pouring industrial strength weed killer on every living thing in Gaza and now Beirut.
Not sure tbh. I imagine Schrodinger’s equation works the same backwards as in time as it does forwards, but perhaps not. Feynman said no one understands quantum mechanics; I certainly don’t.
If the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics truly describes how the universe works, then when the universe reaches thermal equilibrium, it will quite literally be the end of time.
The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics is the only law in all of physics which distinguishes the future from the past. All the other laws, at least in classical physics, are time symmetrical.
That’s what gives entropy it’s metaphysical significance.
And therefore you’ve strained the metaphor beyond breaking point. A common hazard with reductionism, is that having taken a subject apart, all meaning and insight is lost until it can be put back together again.