[RoosterRedux]

And how do we know we aren’t the result of programming by some earlier entity?

If I am any proof, the programmer was pretty sloppy.;-)

Actually, I see all this through a Judeo/Christian prism. And it is Satanic powers who plant the seed of dissatisfaction in human beings which causes them to want to become gods.

[taterjay]

We had paradise once and threw it away.