[Sethomas]

Thursday I was speaking with a girl interest of a friend, and she asked why apes are still around if we evolved from them. I explained to her the details of speciation, and when I was done she asked, "If we know all this, why does anyone still believe in God?" I replied that evolution shows us how we were created, but it never begins to explain why. I then lectured her on the Big Bang, and explained that the perceived projection of the universe required in the first picoseconds after the bang a Matter to Anti-matter Ratio of about 500,000,000 to 500,000,001. That leaves raw chance with a 10^-7% margin of error to create the right amount of matter to serve as our home, of which >95% is useless in the form of dark matter and >>1% has solid ground. Considering the the Laws of Thermodynamics, the statistical probability against nucleic acids replicating themselves is mind-numbingly great. In perspective of numbers, I find the evidence of a guiding force behind everything remarkably great.

Much of my personal work has been to rectify Aquinas' notions of free will with biological science and such, and also to apply his work and that of Augustine to cosmological history. It's quite interesting to apply the idea of the prime mover to the Big Bang.

Here's a fun epiphany I had today: the Big Bang couldn't have possibly happened by itself. The Big Bang was a change in matter and energy, yet change is by definition only possible within the parameters of time. The Big Bang could never happen by itself because it lacked the fundamental time in which it could occur. I'm not saying it didn't happen, I'm saying it received an external "push".

This rumination was tonight's alternative to sleep.