RE: Atheists: If God suddenly made his presence known... would you shit bricks?
November 20, 2010 at 7:39 pm
(This post was last modified: November 20, 2010 at 7:44 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(November 19, 2010 at 6:29 pm)Paul the Human Wrote: Whereas I am 99.999% convinced that there are no gods. If something so incredibly extraordinary were suddenly proven to be true, I'd 'shit bricks' in surprise. I'd be flabbergasted. I'd be less surprised if aliens landed and said "Take me to your leader." If 'shit bricks' is meant to represent fear in this context... then no... I wouldn't 'shit bricks'. I'd be too busy demanding an explanation.
1. Because the metallicity of star forming regions of the universe may have first grown high enough to form planets 3-4 billion before life first formed on earth, we might reasonably guess that the most advanced space traveling aliens would be at least 3-4 billion years more advanced than we are.
2. Because we are at the very beginning of space travel, our space travel age is practically 0 on the age of universe scale. By overwhelming margins of hundreds of millions to one the space travel age of most space traveling aliens would be far higher than ours.
3. Distribution of the ages of alien space traveling alien civilization is completely unknown. But a first guess might be the mean value of 0 and 3-4 billion years, so say 1.75 billion years.
I might guess that if an alien with 1.75 billion years of technological advantage were to land and be interested in being our gods, even our most fervent faith in our old god(s) or most inveterate non-belief in god that our species are capable of could be swept effortlessly away and we would all be converted into alien worshipping zombies at a snap of a disembodied virtual tentacle.