RE: christian looking to understand athiests
August 18, 2015 at 4:02 am
(This post was last modified: August 18, 2015 at 4:29 am by robvalue.)
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I go further than most and say that the very concept of God is so ill-defined that the general question is meaningless.
If God simply means an intelligent creator, then I can't possibly have any idea whether there is one or not. I see no compelling evidence that there is. We have no "samples universes" to compare to that are designed or not designed. All attempts to use logical argument to prove the universe is designed are hopelessly flawed. The only reasonable scenario to me is that this is a computer simulation and so "God" is a computer/programmer in a different reality.
For me, even if there is a "God", whatever that may be, it would only be of scientific interest to me. I find the idea of worship obscene, and I'd carry on living my life as I do now. I find it irrelevant; I just also happen to find it nonsensical and unsupported. I find most of the popular religions to be vile and so I wouldn't join them even if I thought they had any truth to them.
I go further than most and say that the very concept of God is so ill-defined that the general question is meaningless.
If God simply means an intelligent creator, then I can't possibly have any idea whether there is one or not. I see no compelling evidence that there is. We have no "samples universes" to compare to that are designed or not designed. All attempts to use logical argument to prove the universe is designed are hopelessly flawed. The only reasonable scenario to me is that this is a computer simulation and so "God" is a computer/programmer in a different reality.
For me, even if there is a "God", whatever that may be, it would only be of scientific interest to me. I find the idea of worship obscene, and I'd carry on living my life as I do now. I find it irrelevant; I just also happen to find it nonsensical and unsupported. I find most of the popular religions to be vile and so I wouldn't join them even if I thought they had any truth to them.
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