Originally Posted by
Barry Shnikov
The second strand is evolution by natural selection. Even with all the other scientific advances, there are still these fantastically complicated, fantastically successful, fantastically varied things that exist on this planet. Living things. Accounting for their existence was a major obstacle to scientific progress. What could possibly explain them, except a superpowerful, suber-being?
Well, the answer of course is millions of years and gradual improvements, and the fact that there isn’t enough food to go around for everyone.
So, while the concept of god might be something that people don’t want to give up, it is now intellectually possible to do so; but this has only been true for 130 odd years.
That is the main argument of TGD.
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