
„Manchmal sind die Fragen kompliziert und die Antworten einfach.“
— Theodor Seuss Geisel US-amerikanischer Kinderbuch-Autor und Cartoonzeichner 1904 - 1991
However difficult those simple beginnings may be to accept, they are a whole lot easier to accept than complicated beginnings. Complicated things come into the universe late, as a consequence of slow, gradual, incremental steps. God, if he exists, would have to be a very, very, very complicated thing indeed. So to postulate a God as the beginning of the universe, as the answer to the riddle of the first cause, is to shoot yourself in the conceptual foot because you are immediately postulating something far far more complicated than that which you are trying to explain.
The God Delusion (2006)
Kontext: If the alternative that's being offered to what physicists now talk about - a big bang, a spontaneous singularity which gave rise to the origin of the universe - if the alternative to that is a divine intelligence, a creator, which would have to have been complicated, statistically improbable, the very kind of thing which scientific theories such as Darwin's exists to explain, then immediately we see that however difficult and apparently inadequate the theory of the physicists is, the theory of the theologians - that the first course was a complicated intelligence - is even more difficult to accept. They're both difficult but the theory of the cosmic intelligence is even worse. What Darwinism does is to raise our consciousness to the power of science to explain the existence of complex things and intelligences, and creative intelligences are above all complex things, they're statistically improbable. Darwinism raises our consciousness to the power of science to explain how such entities - and the human brain is one - can come into existence from simple beginnings. However difficult those simple beginnings may be to accept, they are a whole lot easier to accept than complicated beginnings. Complicated things come into the universe late, as a consequence of slow, gradual, incremental steps. God, if he exists, would have to be a very, very, very complicated thing indeed. So to postulate a God as the beginning of the universe, as the answer to the riddle of the first cause, is to shoot yourself in the conceptual foot because you are immediately postulating something far far more complicated than that which you are trying to explain. Now, physicists cope with this problem in various ways, which may seem somewhat unconvincing. For example, they suggest that our universe is but one bubble in foam of universes, the multiverse, and each bubble in the foam has a different set of laws and constants. And by the anthropic principle we have to be - since we're here talking about it - in the kind of bubble, with the kind of laws and constants, which are capable of giving rise to the evolutionary process and therefore to creatures like us. That is one current physicists' explanation for how we exist in the kind of universe that we do. It doesn't sound so shatteringly convincing as say Darwin's own theory, which is self-evidently very convincing. Nevertheless, however unconvincing that may sound, it is many, many, many orders of magnitude more convincing than any theory that says complex intelligence was there right from the outset. If you have problems seeing how matter could just come into existence - try thinking about how complex intelligent matter, or complex intelligent entities of any kind, could suddenly spring into existence, it's many many orders of magnitude harder to understand.
Lynchburg, Virginia, 23/10/2006 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR_z85O0P2M&t=42m41s
„Manchmal sind die Fragen kompliziert und die Antworten einfach.“
— Theodor Seuss Geisel US-amerikanischer Kinderbuch-Autor und Cartoonzeichner 1904 - 1991
„Das Leben ist wirklich einfach, aber wir bestehen darauf, es kompliziert zu machen.“
— Konfuzius chinesischer Philosoph zur Zeit der Östlichen Zhou-Dynastie -551 - -479 v.Chr
— Christian Kämmerling deutscher Journalist 1953
in der "Weltwoche" vom 28. August 2003
„Dunkel ist die Kreatur, sofern sie aus dem Nichts stammt. Sofern sie aber von Gott ihren Ursprung hat, ist sie teilhaftig seines Bildes.“
Creatura est tenebra in quantum est ex nihilo; in quantum vero est a Deo, similitudinem aliquam eius participat.
— Thomas von Aquin dominikanischer Philosoph und Theologe 1225 - 1274
Quaestiones disputatae de veritate (Untersuchungen über die Wahrheit) q. 18, art. 2, ad 5
„Das Universum ist ein Gedanke Gottes.“
— Friedrich Schiller deutscher Dichter, Philosoph und Historiker 1759 - 1805
Philosophische Briefe: Theosophie des Julius, Die Welt und das denkende Wesen
Briefe und Sonstiges
— Lothar Matthäus ehemaliger deutscher Fußballspieler und Trainer 1961
im Interview mit Arno Luik. Stern Nr. 34/2010, 19. August 2010, S. 122 reporter-forum.de http://www.reporter-forum.de/index.php?id=117&tx_rfartikel_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=412&cHash=d9ea81accd7e90d9933391640b4207f8
— Douglas Adams, buch Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis
Das Restaurant am Ende des Universums. Ullstein, 1994. ISBN 3-548-22492-X. Seite 11. PT9 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=G96PDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT9&dq=universum
Original engl.: "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis, Das Restaurant am Ende des Universums
— Andrew Ng Amerikanischer KI-Forscher 1976
Quelle: https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/digitec/ki-star-andrew-ng-ueber-die-entwicklung-der-algorithmen-17185770.html
„Es ist nicht leicht, mit Gott Schritt zu halten.“
— Martin Buber österreichisch-israelischer jüdischer Religionsphilosoph und Autor 1878 - 1965
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, buch Faust. Eine Tragödie.
Faust I, Vers 1237 / Faust
Dramen, Faust. Eine Tragödie (1808)