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The thing that reason indicates but does not dictate is that we are not the first species to reach the level of scientific civilization, discounting for the moment whether in fact we have. The odds on that should be proportional to a 100 billion to one. In fact there should at least some that have done so at least thousands of years before now in our time relative to the origin of this universe. | The thing that reason indicates but does not dictate is that we are not the first species to reach the level of scientific civilization, discounting for the moment whether in fact we have. The odds on that should be proportional to a 100 billion to one. In fact there should at least some that have done so at least thousands of years before now in our time relative to the origin of this universe. | ||
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In the Abrahamic concept the being is in a direct relationship with Man and directly affects event on Earth at least up until about -600 BCE. So assuming the being is outside this universe, there could be one of two | In the Abrahamic concept the being is in a direct relationship with Man and directly affects event on Earth at least up until about -600 BCE. So assuming the being is outside this universe, there could be one of two situations: either we find there is no other apparent life at our level or higher in the universe or that there are relatively many. A few more advanced than us would be many relative to our current understanding. If none, then that could be taken either as an indication that the being purposely acts to prevent there being any, i.e. a confirmation of an active culling of such species. | ||
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The notion of "outside this universe" could also change and be substantiated or not by astrophysics/cosmology. | The notion of "outside this universe" could also change and be substantiated or not by astrophysics/cosmology but the case to be dealt with is this one. One could take no ETSI¹ as an indication of a culling of species that reach our level or above, the final limit of the attribution of an intentional force behind nature and by this time a reasonably convincing one. | ||
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Here something must be said about the distinction between a thing believed in and a thing found to be true when there are tangled relations between the two. The Abrahamic supreme being appears to be nothing more than a projection of primitive humans, a unification of an earlier stage of their development where they attributed anthropomorphic personalities to a variety of animate and inanimate elements of their environments. <br/> | Here something must be said about the distinction between a thing believed in and a thing found to be true when there are tangled relations between the two. The Abrahamic supreme being appears to be nothing more than a projection of primitive humans, a unification of an earlier stage of their development where they attributed anthropomorphic personalities to a variety of animate and inanimate elements of their environments. <br/> | ||
