Life, The Universe, And (Not Quite) Everything

I have days when I think about how amazing it is to be alive. I know how cliché and Christian that sounds, but it's true. I consider myself an agnotic-atheist (or atheist-agnostic, whatever). I was sort of brought up as a Catholic, but it wasn't strict. We'd go to church every Sunday but I was never forced to do anything other than that and I was never told that I'd go to hell when I did something bad. Plus, I recall my dad telling me that the only reasons we went to church in the first place were a) because we liked the priest and b) because it kept my gran happy.

So when I do think about life and how incredibly amazingly awesome it is, I never concede that there must have been some creator, some supreme being that made the heavens and the earth and everything that crawls around on it. I think that there are four real possibilities - the universe is a staggering coincidence; the universe has changed during every step of its evolution; or there have been countless other incarnations of the universe and that this is merely the one in which the conditions were right in order for everything we see around us to develop.

However, the possibility I see as being most likely is the theory that the universe has been in existence for all time. This is not too hard to imagine since, according to this theory, when the universe came into existence, time also did. The unverise has been expanding and collapsing gradually forever and this is merely the present incarnation of it. This hasn't really got anything to do with how amazing life is, but I don't care. This is my blog. :P

While we're here, I may as well share my thoughts on climate change also. I don't believe in global warming. I think we're about due for a new ice age any time now. How did the last one come about? Were the animals driving cars around kicking out greenhouse gases? I don't think so. It's just going to happen. We can't stop it. We shouldn't try to stop it. It's nature, let it be.

Here endeth the lesson. Fnar.