Tuesday

on reproduction and chance

Certainly those unborn ghosts include poets greater than Keats, scientists greater than Newton, but in the teeth of these stupefying odds, it is you and I in our ordinariness that are here.
-- Richard Dawkins, awesome guy who is smarter than me or you.

The world is far more interesting when you consider what incredible odds were against us being here. The whole god issue provides the poor and illiterate with a morality sufficient to balance a minor civilization, and that has value, but life is more cerebrally fulfilling when we apply ourselves to understanding what it is and how it got here. If you find yourself upset that the godless belief system doesn't have the meaning you need, then what you need is out of proportion to reality.

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