To Unsure
Again for the record, I'm agnostic. What I find exhausting
and disheartening is that even if intelligent design was proven, the very next
forum post would be about who's intelligent designer is the true God. Why does
it have to be this complicated?
I don’t find if complicated. My suggestion is to follow the
truth to wherever it leads you. Something to read.
Since the Greeks there has been two basic pictures of
ultimate reality. One world view espoused that the mind is the primary reality.
According to this view, material reality either originated from a preexisting
mind or is shaped by a preexisting intelligence. Thus the mind, not matter is
the ultimate reality from which everything come from. Plato, Aristotle, Roman
Stoics, Jewish and Christian philosophers espoused some version of this
worldview. Most founders of modern science [1300-1700 = scientific revolution]
held to a mind first view of reality. This is known as Idealism. Theism is a
version of Idealism which credits God as the source of all reality.
The other view is that the physical universe is the ultimate
source of reality. This is known as naturalism or materialism.