If we removed the concepts of intelligent design and atheistic spontanious origination, what do we have left?
I’ll try to make a list…
[all help here is coo 2]
*Agnosticism. [No comment]
*Eternalism. [Things change, but they’ve always been around]
*Unfathomable/Defeatist. [There’s no way we can ever know the origin of the universe and the origin of that, or God, etc.]
*Pantheism/Biocosm. [Universe is alive, and it is the self-creator]
*Illusory Undermine. [Universe & Reality are solid illusions]
If you had to choose one of these as most likely, other than your current atheism or theism [if you have one of these two as metaphysics], what would that view be? And why does that view work for you?
As a quasi-nihlist, I will side with extreme relativism, non-absolutism, non-reductionisms, etc. So… According to my side, some portion of all of these has existed slightly or strongly, in the universe.
There have been some small polytheisms, there have been some creators and Gods. There are other areas of reality which have no God or higher beings at all, and are all made of dead matter/energy. Some of the universe is eternal. Some of the universe is temporary. Some parts change, some parts never change. Some parts are true. Some parts are illusion. Some parts are unfathomable, some parts can be experienced, some parts can be rationalized and theorized. Etc.
At this time, all views have limit.
Humans can handle only a certain kind of belief, a certain kind of perspective, and a certain kind of theory. The nature of reality, and the origin of everything, is far too holistic and complex for a human to know or believe. Also, a simplified version could bare the truth entirely and basically, about the universe.
For most of the many years which humanity existed on earth, there was no advanced astro-physics. We’re still cave-men and oagers compared to how advanced we Could be in 30 years… In this case, Unified Physics and a functional TOA are not yet possible, in the same way that flight wasn’t even possible 200 years ago.
So, my position is a mix of each, but mainly: Defeatist, for now. It’s not possible to know it yet.