FYS: Intelligent Design
Dec. 4th, 2015 02:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeriendhal"Does the Groupmind believe in God, Sparky?" Lin asked, laying back on the hood of her reproduction Ford Fury and staring up at the stars through the Roof.
Sparky scratched his long rabbit ears, then glanced up at the Roof himself. "If there's an omniscient creator, they haven't chosen to speak to Us."
Lin smiled. "The Groupmind doesn't count?"
"As the saying goes: We aren't omniscient, just very powerful. And for obvious reasons We don't enjoy engaging in religious arguments. But given the current evidence We highly doubt the universe had a single great designer."
"What makes you say that?"
Sparky shrugged and pointed to the sun, which was just starting to peek around the Earth's terminator. "Well for one thing, we wouldn't have made it necessary for life to evolve in orbit around a gigantic unshielded fusion reactor."
Sparky scratched his long rabbit ears, then glanced up at the Roof himself. "If there's an omniscient creator, they haven't chosen to speak to Us."
Lin smiled. "The Groupmind doesn't count?"
"As the saying goes: We aren't omniscient, just very powerful. And for obvious reasons We don't enjoy engaging in religious arguments. But given the current evidence We highly doubt the universe had a single great designer."
"What makes you say that?"
Sparky shrugged and pointed to the sun, which was just starting to peek around the Earth's terminator. "Well for one thing, we wouldn't have made it necessary for life to evolve in orbit around a gigantic unshielded fusion reactor."
