Super Complex Universe

   January 17, 2011  2 Comments on Super Complex Universe  Posted in Mix

The universe is so complex,
that for there to be a single creator,
‘he’ has to be super complex.

But to explain the origin of the complex
with someone super complex and unseen
doesn’t explain anything.

What arrived at is a super complex problem
of how the super complex originated,
or how ‘he’ is ‘unoriginated’.

The universe is instead a super complex interlinked web
of changing physical and psychical factors,
that are interdependent on one another as they rise and fall.

From Richard Dawkins: Now, the difficult problem for any theory of biological design is to explain the massive statistical improbability of living things. Statistical improbability in the direction of good design. Complexity is another word for this. The standard creationist argument- there is only one, they all reduce to this one- takes off from statistical improbability. Living creatures are too complex to have come about by chance, therefore they must have had a designer. This argument, of course, shoots itself in the foot- any designer capable of designing something really complex has to be even more complex himself. And that’s before we even start on the other things He’s expected to do, like forgive sins, bless marriages, listen to prayers, favor our side in a war, disapprove of our sex lives, and so on.

Complexity is the problem that any theory of biology has to solve. And you can’t solve it by postulating an agent that is even more complex thereby simply compounding the problem. Darwinian natural selection is so stunningly elegant because it solves the problem of explaining complexity in terms of nothing but simplicity. Essentially it does it by providing a smooth ramp of gradual step by step increment. But here I only want to make the point that the elegance of Darwinism is corrosive to religion [which subscribes to existence of a creator] precisely because it is so elegant. So parsimonious. So powerful. So economically powerful. It has the sinewy economy of a beautiful suspension bridge. The “God theory” is not just a bad theory, it turns out to be in principle incapable of doing the job required of it.

Related Article:
Buddhist Review of ‘The God Delusion’
http://moonpointer.com/index.php?itemid=1738

2 thoughts on “Super Complex Universe”

  1. When thinking about how all things begin, I can only illustrate using the following analogy I visualised.

    A father found some loose links of a chain and out of boredom, he started to link them up sequentially forming a chain. His son came by and asked him what he is doing. This is what they shared:

    Father: What do you see here?
    Son: I see a chain. That first piece that you lift up is the beginning and the last chain you are holding is the end.
    Father: What if i tell you the end of the chain was the first piece I worked on first instead of this one? What do you think now?
    Son: Opps…..then i must be wrong then.
    Father: What if i tell you the chain I have here is actually some loose pieces from another chain elsewhere which I got hold off?
    Son: Do you know where that previous chain begin?
    Father: Nope.
    Father: Now look at this (the father connected the first chain and last chain together forming a circle)
    Father: If you came by and what you saw is this circular chain. May i ask you where did it begin and where did it end?
    Son: Every beginning can be an end itself.
    Father: Therefore the Buddha advised us against speculating against how things begin. All things are cyclic therefore there is no beginning and no end. In fact, in one of the sutras, the Buddha actually met a celestial being who claimed that he is a father to him and the usual stuff. But the Buddha actually rejected the celestial being due to the being’s pride and ego.

    When the Buddha speaks of karmic links, have anyone wonder who similar it resemble the internet and even a very robust social media. You can add a link to me. I can add a link to you. When your facebook or email kena virus, all your email contacts may get a virus mail and if you click, you will be sharing the same karma unless you may have a better karma of having a updated anti-virus software which the others dun at that time. There is no saying how big internet can be. If one day we can colonize other planets, the internet maybe a universal version. Even contact leave a link behind. Obviously humans like to contact what they desire.

    Buddhist Sutra which mentioned the FATHER. So if Buddha accepted the father, he should be the ELDEST son……LOL. Nirvana is a better bet!

    《起世经·阎浮洲品第一》有记载：

    佛言。比丘。如一日月所行之处。照四天下。如是等类。四天世界。有千日月所照之处。此则名为一千世界。诸比丘。千世界中。千月千日千须弥山王。四千小洲。四千大洲。四千小海。四千大海。四千龙种姓。四千大龙种姓。四千金翅鸟种姓。四千大金翅鸟种姓。四千恶道处种姓。四千大恶道处种姓。四千小王。四千大王。七千种种大树。八千种种大山。十千种种大泥犁。千阎摩王。千阎浮洲。千瞿陀尼。千弗婆提。千郁单越。千四天王天。千三十三天。千夜摩天。千兜率陀天。千化乐天。千他化自在天。千摩罗天。千梵世天。诸比丘。于梵世中。有一梵王。威力最强。无能降伏。统摄千梵自在王领。云我能作能化能幻。云我如父。于诸事中。自作如是憍大语已。即生我慢。如来不尔。所以者何。一切世间。各随业力。现起成立。诸比丘。此千世界。犹如周罗(周罗者隋言髻)。名小千世界。

    The idea of a universe is already passe. The new concept is a multiverse…..many universes. When Buddha sat under the bodhi tree, he saw his past lives and even those he has connections with. Doesn’t that sound like FACEBOOK? The fact that he can even know so many things without moving his seat is not impossible. Our existence is made up of cycles and chains and chains of links. These days, we also can know about the world without moving our seat by clicking links after links on the internet. But the Buddha is definitely superior because he can perform it without a hardware and everything is totally spiritual.

    Science cannot prove religion not becos Science is more superior than religion but rather Science is not there yet.

    If god cannot be created…….we should not create him.

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