Something that’s has irked me for some time now is how many people latched onto the Atheist movement as an edgy teen but now look back on it in reverence and not shame. This seems to be a common theme in academia and is prevalent even in communities like this one. The lamentation of the “golden-age” of atheism is peak hubris. Dawkins, Hitchens, and crew were deconstructionists of the critical theory variety. Their lives were consumed by the need to disprove God and religion. However these were the shortsighted desires of pseudo-intellectuals, they accomplished nothing productive, and if anything, opened the door for the screaming children that replaced them. I don’t think Dawkins, in his wildest dreams, ever saw his fall come from his own hubris. The intellectual argument over dismantling religion somehow disproving the existence of a god is what fueled the SJWS and their own brand of hubris in the early 2000’s. BTW Dawkins, this is what happens when you remove the “tumor” of religion, you hack. As you see today, Dawkins was swallowed by the stupidity he helped bring about, the Maximilien Robespierre of the modern era, begging for trannies to not cut off his head.
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You’re talking about the same Dawkins that rationalized our universe’s current state as the Infinite Monkey Theorem. What about the infinite universe theory that they have had to hide in to keep denying a god? These modern superstitions are even more of a joke than Scientology. That’s all Dawkins and hitchens were, people with enough ego to believe they were infallible rationalists while spewing ignorant claims that have not aged well. You apparently never read the founding fathers much for your last rant, Jefferson was one of the best religious scholars of his time and most of the founding fathers believed stringent religious beliefs were necessary to make people act rationally. You don’t have to be that bright to realize we are far more irrational today then we were in the 1700’s even with religious dogmas.
You have a problem with that?
???? No, what about it, i am mildly curious, since boundness of universe is not something that can be experimentally verified or falsified given our present knowledge.
You’re kidding right? The infinite monkey theory is borderline retarded, we tried it, the monkeys shit on the keyboard and didn’t type any English words, which is exceptionally difficult considering that a and I are words. The fact of the matter is ancient aliens make a more convincing argument for human sapience than “it just kinda happened bro”.
It's not a theory, it's slightly advanced math (the infinite version, the finite version is middle school level of basic). Granted, result is pretty absurd, but so are conditions of it.
There's not enough cells, let alone living organisms, on Earth for appropriate sense of scale, so nope lol.
Luckily humans are stupid enough that any such argument falls apart because once again, if ancient aliens participated in humans acquiring their sapience... why are humans so stupid?
It’s a theory, most of math is a theory. Mathematically it would take trillions upon trillions of years based on the current metrics, far longer than our estimated timeline of earths existence. The scaled version show that monkeys were not capable of even baseline interest in the process. The concept would only work if the monkeys actively participated, which is redundant on its face.To pretend we could generate intelligent thought through random chance is as stupid as us pretending artificial intelligence developed itself. If ancient aliens participated in human sentience they likely did so with no care of us aside from being an experiment of their abilities. Sapience and intelligence are to completely different concepts, with the latter requiring the former to exist.