(November 7, 2008 at 10:04 am)CoxRox Wrote: Chatpilot, you think that believing in God is an easy answer for things we don't understand and hence faith? Speaking for myself, you couldn't be further from the truth. The belief in 'God' is difficult because of course He isn't exactly on 'speaking terms' with most of us and then of course there's the matter of trying to live a more unselfish life. In some of my earlier posts on faith I was trying to convey that 'faith' shouldn't be the main part of a belief ie blind faith. So no, it's not 'easy' at all.WelL CR, as I said, it's not my theory. It was put forward by a youthful English poet, Shelley, in his notes to his epic poem " Queen Mab " dating from early 1800's. The poem is a scathing attack on many things, kings,war,clergy,religion etc. Shelley was of the opinion that probability suggests there is no god. In his notes he postulates that the human mind, faced with two improbable theories will prefer the " least improbable " in this case, what is has always been,rather than conceiving of a creator ( since that raises the question of where the creator came from ).
Bozo- you said:
'Let me offer a theory, it isn't mine, I'm not so clever, nor do I claim it the answer.
What if what there is, has always been?
No creator, no big bang.
To my mind, that is equal to either option'.
This is very interesting. Could you expand on this? It sounds very much like the 'I Am' who is and has always been? If space, energy etc could have always been, why not this super intelligent being (from whom these things eminate)?
A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
