Indeed, I'm an atheist who absolutely loves biology. I adore all the millions upon millions of tiny and huge complex machines that Evolution just spits left and right merely by being a very old, very brutal, and very stupid simulation running for 4 billion years straight on a massive, inefficiently-powered distributed processor.
And I can never shake the unconscious feeling that all this is purposeful, the idea that all this came by literally throwing shit at a wall and only allowing what sticks to reproduce warps my mind into unnatural contortions. The sheer amount of order that life is, the sheer regularity and unity of purpose it represents amidst the soup of dead that is the universe. It's... unsettling?
Which is why I personally think the typical "Science^TM" way of argument against traditional religions misguided. Typical religons already make the task of refuting them a thousand time easier by assuming a benevolent creator, which a universe like ours, with a big fat Problem Of Evil slapped on its forehead, automatically refutes for you.
But the deeper question is whether there is/are Creator(s) at all: ordered, possibly-intellignet (but most definitely not moral by _any_ human standards) entities, which spewed this universe in some manner that can be approximated as purposeful (or even, perhaps, as a by-product of doing a completely unrelated activity, like they created our universe on accident while,or as a result of, doing another activity useful to them, like accidental pregnancies to us humans). This is a far more muddled and interesting question and "Science" emites much more mixed signals than straight answers.
And I can never shake the unconscious feeling that all this is purposeful, the idea that all this came by literally throwing shit at a wall and only allowing what sticks to reproduce warps my mind into unnatural contortions. The sheer amount of order that life is, the sheer regularity and unity of purpose it represents amidst the soup of dead that is the universe. It's... unsettling?
Which is why I personally think the typical "Science^TM" way of argument against traditional religions misguided. Typical religons already make the task of refuting them a thousand time easier by assuming a benevolent creator, which a universe like ours, with a big fat Problem Of Evil slapped on its forehead, automatically refutes for you.
But the deeper question is whether there is/are Creator(s) at all: ordered, possibly-intellignet (but most definitely not moral by _any_ human standards) entities, which spewed this universe in some manner that can be approximated as purposeful (or even, perhaps, as a by-product of doing a completely unrelated activity, like they created our universe on accident while,or as a result of, doing another activity useful to them, like accidental pregnancies to us humans). This is a far more muddled and interesting question and "Science" emites much more mixed signals than straight answers.