well, that guy is pretty certain in himself that religion is hogswash and that there exists a federation of alien races and planets. No kidding. He says humanity has to prove itself worthy of freedom and ascension first, or something of that ilk.

I am ashamed to have called myself an atheist at one point. It didn't last long thankfully as just thinking about it logically showed me that the atheist position is an inherently stupid and nonsensical one (nothing against atheists though, some of them are intellectual behemoths after all).

Funnily enough, it was a description from Deepak Chopra that stuck with me and made absolute sense and which struck down the atheist argument for me. He said that existence is a field of pure potentiality and that nothing that is could ever be unless the potential for it was there already.

Think what you will about Deepak Chopra - I know he's twee as fuck and probably wrong on most things. Probably even a bad guy at heart, who knows. But you cannot tell me that that little description doesn't ring completely true and doesn't dissolve any silly notion of lucky accidents etc.

That one chimed with me. It made the most fundamental sense. How can any creature have any characteristic that wasn't already there in potential?

That's why I take the view that there are really no inventions, that all inventions are essentially really only new ways to apply discoveries. Don't know if I'm expressing that clearly.