I found it a hard subject in school and have never used it practically, but it seems to be the only SURE way of proving the correctness of a program. Shouldn't we be using it, at least in real-time mission-critical applications now.
I think it needs to be stressed a lot more in school from the start, as compared to topics like web development and java and all other pragmatic things that can be learned more easily.
If you are looking for an answer purely based on reason/science (an objective answer), then I don't think I have one for you. Since at this point I have no doubts whatsoever that reason is an important step in evolution, but not by far the final step. So there's something higher than reason, and consequently the highest being obviously cannot be represented in terms of something lower than itself (that is reason).
As for why did the universe start at all? I don't have a very good answer to that but a somewhat vague one, which I won't write here since at this point I'm not very clear about it. But consider this:
We have some consciousness of the universe, its existence. So something does exist in some kind of consciousness. Which means it had to have come from some source...and tracing back to the origin, one would have to conclude that the origin itself is ever-existing...a higher being that wasn't created, but that created.
Now, if that higher being is so High, higher than reason, and has created this universe, then there has to a purpose for which this process has been started. And hints of the fulfilment of this purpose can be seen in evolution...the start of the universe from pure matter, to life, to mind... and beyond.
(Not all of these ideas are mine so I don't take credit for them, but I do believe in them)
Anybody who claims to explain the whole process of creation of the universe and its evolution, by either 'Just Evolution' or 'Just ID' has simply not thought very sincerely about the whole question. Of course, the universe started from somewhere and for a certain purpose. The tools used to achieve that purpose (the purpose being evolution) were those as 'natural selection'.
Of course there is an intelligent will governing all the processes. Of course there is science and theories and evolutionn BUT that is NOT all. There is that which is higher than science and reason and again anyone denying this has a lot to discover (which is good since that is a vista for progress!)
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I found it a hard subject in school and have never used it practically, but it seems to be the only SURE way of proving the correctness of a program. Shouldn't we be using it, at least in real-time mission-critical applications now. I think it needs to be stressed a lot more in school from the start, as compared to topics like web development and java and all other pragmatic things that can be learned more easily.
If you are looking for an answer purely based on reason/science (an objective answer), then I don't think I have one for you. Since at this point I have no doubts whatsoever that reason is an important step in evolution, but not by far the final step. So there's something higher than reason, and consequently the highest being obviously cannot be represented in terms of something lower than itself (that is reason). As for why did the universe start at all? I don't have a very good answer to that but a somewhat vague one, which I won't write here since at this point I'm not very clear about it. But consider this: We have some consciousness of the universe, its existence. So something does exist in some kind of consciousness. Which means it had to have come from some source...and tracing back to the origin, one would have to conclude that the origin itself is ever-existing...a higher being that wasn't created, but that created. Now, if that higher being is so High, higher than reason, and has created this universe, then there has to a purpose for which this process has been started. And hints of the fulfilment of this purpose can be seen in evolution...the start of the universe from pure matter, to life, to mind ... and beyond.
(Not all of these ideas are mine so I don't take credit for them, but I do believe in them)
Anybody who claims to explain the whole process of creation of the universe and its evolution, by either 'Just Evolution' or 'Just ID' has simply not thought very sincerely about the whole question. Of course, the universe started from somewhere and for a certain purpose. The tools used to achieve that purpose (the purpose being evolution) were those as 'natural selection'. Of course there is an intelligent will governing all the processes. Of course there is science and theories and evolutionn BUT that is NOT all. There is that which is higher than science and reason and again anyone denying this has a lot to discover (which is good since that is a vista for progress!)