In an extemporaneous speech reprinted in The Salmon of Doubt, Douglas Adams argues that creationism is flawed because it imagines a top down approach to creation. It suggests a very complex being created beings of lesser complexity. He says that evolution, and most notably the way computers and their programs work, have given us a different model. Human complexity, according to Adams and his sources, arises not from some ineffable and greater than human intellect or spirituality. Rather, our complexity is generated by millions upon millions of iterations of small, basic subroutines working together to create a whole that appears to be greater than the sum of the parts, the same way little bits of code can be strung together to create a very complicated video game.
For Adams, the most basic, fundamental principles of the universe guide this, and that is enough.
But what if Adams is wrong in his depiction of God? What if God is not only a hyper-complex super-being? What if God, in His completeness, is also the most simple and basic of all being. What if God's mere being, what if love in its purest form, is the most simple, basic thing that lies at the very root of even the most fundamental particle that science can imagine?
I'm not sure that you can empirically prove that, but I'm also not sure you can empirically prove love at all...yet, I'm pretty sure most people think it exists.
Anyone have any thoughts on how we might prove love is not merely an evolved psychological condition that merely happened favorable to the survival of the species?
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