(November 13, 2010 at 2:51 am)theVOID Wrote: I agree the universe is rather mechanical in nature, but using the term 'God' if anything else implies intelligence, what reason do you have for thinking any such intelligence is present?
Personally, I've always ascribed to the Einstein view of god - essentially being a one-word representation of all of existance and the universe. Perhpas a one-word catch-all for the mysteries of the universe or the unknown.
Sort of in the same vein as luck or karma - both things I don't believe in, but I'll say I have good or bad luck as much as anyone but a string of bad coincidences is still just coincidences.
This is as opposed to a thinking and sentient superbeing that is religious in nature.
In this sense, god in a where or a what and not a who and isn't technically even a being at all.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
