you don't have to believe in religion to believe in a god though, a creator, that all this complexity and math came out of nowhere. Someone programmed this universe to work, someone had to design the human body and all other living things. otherwise everything in the universe would just be matter and chaotic energy. How does one explain consciousness?
ha ha lol. Actually if you believe in a god then that
is a religion because it is the belief in the supernatural. It's not much of a religion as it basically explains nothing and instructs nothing. Thus it's not really harmful or helpful. You might as well say a cosmic fairy created everything. And then ignore where the cosmic fairy came from or how it magically made everything out of nothing and why it decided to do that. That is of course all on the other assumption that matter even needed to be created rather than it just being what being is.
Deism is a religion just not one of the more obvious bullshit stories that says ps this god also happened to pick me to rule over you. "Someone programmed the universe." Ok riiight and so under the same logic that stuff is too complicated to exist any other way, wouldn't an all powerful thing than can make all this stuff be even more complicated and improbably to have just appeared? And when did it make everything and why? And what was it doing before that?
Let me explain it another way that you haven't thought of. The assumption that all was void and that matter needed to be made is wrong. Something can't come from nothing doesn't mean a magical being in the nothing decided to make everything by magic aka impossibly. That basically still saying being came from nothing.
How about this, and I will explain it to you with a question. Where did nothingness come from?
Prior nothingness? No, it doesn't "come from" nothing, it IS nothing, and it remains nothing, it doesn't have to be made out of being or be preserved by prior nothingness.
The same applies to existence. There never was a a time where there was a void. In fact there isn't even time. Being is what is. It has always been. The word been is misleading because it's really just being now the same way that nothingness is a constant at all times. Time is an illusion. Time is a human's arbitrary measurement for changes with in the being but not of it. You pick a change in movement and count until some ending point. That doesn't measure existence. In fact that is as silly as guessing the age of nothingness. Emptiness by logic must always have been, and will be the same; nothing. Being is also eternal. When you think of time for existence don't imagine a linear tape of film that spands in opposite direction from some point called now that is always moving forward. Think of it as a dot that doesn't move at all. All this junk no matter how it moves about, no matter what changes take place, it ALWAYS exist.
The proper logical conclusion about matter or more accurately being, is that somethingness was not created out of nothing or by a god, but it is eternal and was never not thus it would be "made." The problem is in the world of man we are always making things, we forget that everything we make is out of other things the sum total is the same, we don't really create new matter we rearrange it. It's never created or destroyed. aka being is as eternal as nothing. (otherwise there would be nothing)
So there is your origin conundrum solved, no magical entities needed. Saying "someone" you didn't even say something but "someone had to design the human body" shows how anthropomorphizing your idea of god is and how limited you imagination and thought is. Some THING certainly did determine the human body. The earth did with specific environments over a long long process. There are a lot of problems with the body and ways to make it better, and not all of them work properly. All the plants an animals are this way and that's why there are so many of them. It's not some impossible miracle for life to occur as it has happen on this young planet already over billion times in different varieties. And there is organic matter on Mars as well, probably Europa too. It's not as rare as people once were taught it was. Before we didn't have Evidence for life in other areas, we'd also never been to any other areas. There are oceans and all the life requirements on several moons for Jupiter. Life doesn't even need to be carbon based like our it can be sulfur based (as it is in the deep sea and ground) or silicon.
It's not random chaos. Chemistry kills the randomness. It has rules that breaks down to size and the 4 forces. Conscientiousness is when a matter has input from the limitless outside thus breaking determinism. Every sentient being is still a part of existence, its being looking at itself through little windows. We could very well be totally mechanical but you'd never know the difference. Consciousness is an interesting question with lots of difference answers. For sure though natural philosophy and science are the paths to knowledge not simply declaring an answer that doesn't make any sense and appeals to magic and child like solutions that amount to "god did it."
We have very good understanding of why lightening occurs, what causes earth quakes and how plants grow, how babies are formed, what diseases are (not all of the diseases but we do know that they ARE diseases and not demon possessions) and other things trumped up to "god did it." and we found them by rejecting the god did it idea in favor of learning how nature works from the perspective that it is not a conscious thing, but and act obeying knowable unchanging physical laws.
