docphin5
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I posit the following belief-system for the moral agnostic (or flexible atheist) (1) because it holds the most basic elements of a belief-system touching on our origins backed up by science and reason. This is meant to be a rough sketch or skeletal framework for a belief-system for who you and I are, where we came from, and why we exist at all. If you hold these things to be reasonably true then you would not need to be an atheist anymore for you would hold a belief-system that explains who you are in the present relative to our past and to our eternal future.
I purposely strained out any terms, religious jargon, or religious names carried by modern religions. This is the essence of a belief-system minus all its outward forms, dogmas, and doctrines. A few assumptions and hypothesis are provided for consideration and IMO are within reason or at least plausible.
Hypothesis based on reason and science:
1- Some atheists claim that they would like to believe in a divine origin if sufficient information were given. Whereas, a "true" atheist denies the existence of any divine origin. This OP is for the former atheists to consider.
I purposely strained out any terms, religious jargon, or religious names carried by modern religions. This is the essence of a belief-system minus all its outward forms, dogmas, and doctrines. A few assumptions and hypothesis are provided for consideration and IMO are within reason or at least plausible.
Hypothesis based on reason and science:
I That there is an infinite, undefined, nonexistence (for lack of a better word), source of all things, to include all knowledge and all power, all good and all bad in existence, but not necessarily an absolute "bad" as in an absolute duality (see "V." below) but a relative "bad".
II The singularity before the Big Bang was an intelligent free-will due to the association of intelligence with complexity in our universe. The singularity, of course, being the most complex, ordered, thing known to man would have been an extremely intelligent will.
III the Big Bang resulted in a lifeless universe in a chaotic state containing potentialities (seeds) for virtuous souls at a later time.
IV. The "Moral Argument and Cosmological Argument for the existence of our Diving Origin" suggest that the Divine Origin, aka, "Singularity" is the source of all matter, souls, and moral consciousness (virtues).
V. The Bad Power (Chaos Power) was not always chaotic and may in fact have been regulated by a virtuous will before the Big Bang. The point being that existence itself is not necessarily absolute "Bad" but only relatively Bad or imperfect in its present state.
VI. The present state of the universe could plausibly return to its pristine state at a future time (not shown here). One theory about the future of our universe is a Big Crunch where all things return to a Singularity again and plausibly our virtuous souls will be produced again, --I repeat "again", highlighting the fact that the universe has demonstrated that it is capable of producing billions of virtuous souls once already.
Pre-existent Good One | ||
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Virtuous Will (Female Wisdom) ++ (union) "Singularity" (Male Power); ++ | ||
"BIG BANG" | ||
Good Power (Potential Virtuous Souls) ? | | Bad Power (Chaos Power) ?? |
Good Power transmuted to unchallenged truth and wisdom | "Singularity" transmuted to matter/flesh | |
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Moral Argument for the Existence of Good Power | Cosmological Argument for Bad Power | |
| Virtuous Will + (union) Human Flesh ??? | |
1- Some atheists claim that they would like to believe in a divine origin if sufficient information were given. Whereas, a "true" atheist denies the existence of any divine origin. This OP is for the former atheists to consider.
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