RE: Atheism. The UNscientific belief (part two)
October 17, 2015 at 5:13 pm
(This post was last modified: October 17, 2015 at 5:15 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(October 17, 2015 at 4:26 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Now I'm going to go a stage further than the usual atheist line and state that I don't believe a god as defined in common popular religious mythology can exist in a Universe like ours. The nature of this god is usually defined to be totally at odds with the reality we experience on a daily basis, to the point where nothing coherent can be said about it without it devolving into a battle of personalities and hurt feelings.
I'm the same... although plenty of gods are not contradictory to reality and hence I consider them 'merely' very very very improbable... the God of the Bible for example interpreted completely literally is so full of contradictions that he cannot exist. It is only when the Bible is cherry picked to be watered down considerably that he then becomes possible - the purely Biblically literal God cannot be possible along with many other gods that are logically contradictory.
For example, taken literally the God of the Bible has two creation stories that contradict each other, so taken literally that God cannot exist. Furthermore, any Biblical interpretation that implies that God himself has free will, but also is interpreted to suggest that he is omniscient and knows all his own future actions - is also impossible. Because he is not free to do otherwise other than what he knows he must do in the future....
...furthermore if the Biblical interpretation of free will is considered to be the contra-causal/libertarian version of free will, then that is an entirely incoherent impossible concept - so any definitions of God or other Biblical claims that are defined in such a way as to be connected to contra-causal/libertarian free will are also impossible.
