I loved it. But I also liked Voyager and didn't really like TNG or DS9.
I agree the story arcs were so much better than the other series.
And they were getting stronger and stronger as it went on. It took me a while to get in to it as at first I was annoyed they had backwards technology, but that actually helped with stories as they didn't have such advanced technology they could rely on it to act like magic to get out of a fix as they do in the other shows.
Voyager was a bit like that with a pressure on resources and no re-stocking over the years.
And they began to have T'Pau in her underwear every episode. The best one was where she began her fertile cycle and tried to bone the engineer
Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody had a clue. Not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atomshad the smallest idea what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge (as well as for comfort, reassurance, and other infantile needs). Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion
- Hitchens
Science doesnt concern itself with the non-existence of something. The periodic table of imaginary thing would be too big for a classroom- infinitely big in fact, and rather pointless. Its not trying to prove the non-existence of anything supernatural. All it knows is there is no scientific proof of anything supernatural so far. When someone presents a jar of God it will test it. - Ricky Gervais
When we didn't know why the rain fell there was a rain God. When we didn't know what the sun was there was a sun God.
Every time the light of knowledge expands God is forced to scurry to a remaining pocket of ignorance until that too is illuminated and he's forced to scurry off again.
You're down to claiming God must exist because we don't know what happened before the Big Bang.
If that's all God has got its not much of a God.
And the idea that because you NEED to have meaning in your life there must be a God is meaningless. The universe didn't care about the meaning of your life in the 14 billion years before you were born, it doesn't care on any of the trillions of planets in the universe and it won't care after your brief existence flickers out and is not even registered in the billions of years to come.
Of course, all this is based on the false premise that time exists. There is no "before" the Big Bang as there is no before as t
Some of the recent findings from quantum physics is proving what was first posited through logic by the ancient Greeks. Such as that time is impossible.
Other than that, I see no synthesis between quantum physics and the core of religious belief (Semitic religious belief anyway) that there exists an intelligence beyond the rule of natural laws
We have a reasonable start to the understanding of the quantum nature of matter. How matter creates atoms. How atoms interact to create molecules. How molecules can form in to more complex molecules. How slight changes in the survival rate of randomly variations in generated molecules can appear to create directional change. How probabilities over vast numbers affect that change so that complexity increases.
And there is your explanation for the creation of life.
Sorry its not as colorful as a big sky fairy willing it into existence from nothing. And it takes a lot more work to understand than a fairy tale.
But once you do its vastly more wondrous than the ramblings of 3000 year old sheep herders.
