(December 28, 2014 at 3:40 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:We have a friendly dislike for each other... it seems.. so don't tell me how to ask a high level question... it is what it is.(December 28, 2014 at 3:35 pm)lifesagift Wrote: Only you could come out with that... pray tell where I've gone wrong !
Don't take it personally, lifes - we've all worded questions poorly, badly, or awkwardly at times.
In order to determine what things would be like if there were a god, you'd have to set some parameters as to what that particular god is like. For example, if there were a god that wanted to universe to appear exactly the way it would if there WERE no god, we couldn't tell. Then, one could postulate a god with a fetish for having only blue-leafed plants. Clearly a god like that doesn't exist.
The way you worded your question boils down to 'What would things be like if they were different?' See what I'm getting at? Your question - as asked - is just too impossibly broad to answer.
Boru
PS if you're about to post a reply and your response is going to be negative, improper, average, odd, obtuse, irrational, an argument, might change the focus, going off at a tangent or just mean ... go and find a maths forum to post on instead, they'll love you !!