This is because, other than the Blind Idiot God, there's the Forthcoming One, the thermodynamical miracle destined to (or rather, that might fortuitously) become the ultimate entropy reducing machine. Art, philosophy, science (in no particular order), mysticism, even serendipity, adventure, lovemaking (not necessarily reproductive), virtue... Are all aspects of this Forthcoming One, precisely those aspects which, from the point of view of the Blind Idiot God, are nothing but wasteful and dysfunctional mutations. In the most ruinous hour, when one dwells in... (read more)
This is because, other than the Blind Idiot God, there's the Forthcoming One, the thermodynamical miracle destined to (or rather, that might fortuitously) become the ultimate entropy reducing machine. Art, philosophy, science (in no particular order), mysticism, even serendipity, adventure, lovemaking (not necessarily reproductive), virtue... Are all aspects of this Forthcoming One, precisely those aspects which, from the point of view of the Blind Idiot God, are nothing but wasteful and dysfunctional mutations. In the most ruinous hour, when one dwells in... (read more)