Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for January 25, 2024

They happened to be made. Spontaneously.

“lie”

Just happened.

All in One Big Colassal Holograph!!

IMO, just happened.

It is what it is.

Part of the dream we’re all a part of.

A little of both.

Have you ever tried to make a star? All the star goo keeps squirting away. Even omnipotent beings can get frustrated.

The debate rages: Big Birth or Large Luck.

The truth, as they say, is usually in the middle. But wandering in the middle of the road is also where one is most likely to be hit.

So, the “debate” rages.

Assignment: Make a case for both. Ready… begin!

Just happened? How did nothing make everything out of nothing? And by no think, philosophers mean no thing. Not a “cosmic vacuum.” That’s a think and things have properties. No cosmic vacuum present. No thing.

P1. Everything that begins to exist has a cause.P2. The universe began to exst.C. The universe has a cause.

A question that will still be under discussion when those stars all go out.

If they were made, then who made the maker?? If he always existed then why couldn’t the universe have always existed? Just asking.

Sherlock Holmes and Watson were camping. Sherlock wakes up and wakes up Watson. “Watson, what do you see?” “Sherlock, I see the grand sight of all the heavens, what do you see?” “Watson, I see that someone has stolen our TENT!!”

The invisible and undetectable Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe after drinking heavily. Anyone who disagrees will be turned into a Republican with His Noodly Appendage.

Stirring debate.

If chiseled from giant balls of fire, someone had to chisel the chiseler

The Egyptian creation myth says that some god pulled out of his wife too early and the resulting emission became the stars. Your creation myth might vary.

The universe is 13.7 billion years old. There are more stars in it than there are grains of sand on all the beaches of this tiny insignificant speck we call Earth, which has only existed for 4.5 billion years. Modern Humans have been here for about 200,000 years. Given these facts, belief in a personal god is completely irrational.

They happened to be made by the laws of physics.

Who cares how it was made? It’s here now and let us be part of it. Enjoy and cherish it.

And by and by a steamboat would plow her way up the river. And she’d belch a world of sparks out of her chimbleys. And they would settle down into the the river and they was ever so pretty …

Sweet. Given Twain’s view of organized religion, I think he’d side with Oliver.

Yep, just like the rest of us!

Made so they just happened.

If the laws of physics, locked down in the first hundredth of a second after the Big Bang, had been in any way slightly different, there would be no atoms, no stars, no us.