RE: Can a slug be God?
May 27, 2016 at 3:40 pm
(This post was last modified: May 27, 2016 at 3:46 pm by robvalue.)
Okay, I appreciate the honesty 
Does this not worry you, that you don't know what it is you believe in? This topic wasn't meant to be a trap, it was a genuine attempt to try and negotiate what a "God" is. Sadly only two theists have been willing to cooperate.
You seem to be describing a slug as it exists in our reality. If you put a slug somewhere that no laws of our universe acted upon it, what's the problem? A slug doesn't have this reality attached to it as part of its definition.
But this seems moot if you don't know what a god is. It's my suspicion that no theist does actually know. Which is why me trying to answer the question of belief is fruitless, because I don't understand the question, and I can't see into their minds.
Indeed; all I generally hear are negatives. The reasons the negatives seem to exist is to keep the god outside the range of falsifiability by science. My hypothesis is that "gods" only exist within the imagination of theists. Any attempt to inject a dose of reality seems to disqualify the thing from being a god. For example, a computer programmer would be a perfectly sensible "God", relative to this reality. But I don't think I've ever heard a theist accept this as a "God".

Does this not worry you, that you don't know what it is you believe in? This topic wasn't meant to be a trap, it was a genuine attempt to try and negotiate what a "God" is. Sadly only two theists have been willing to cooperate.
You seem to be describing a slug as it exists in our reality. If you put a slug somewhere that no laws of our universe acted upon it, what's the problem? A slug doesn't have this reality attached to it as part of its definition.
But this seems moot if you don't know what a god is. It's my suspicion that no theist does actually know. Which is why me trying to answer the question of belief is fruitless, because I don't understand the question, and I can't see into their minds.
Indeed; all I generally hear are negatives. The reasons the negatives seem to exist is to keep the god outside the range of falsifiability by science. My hypothesis is that "gods" only exist within the imagination of theists. Any attempt to inject a dose of reality seems to disqualify the thing from being a god. For example, a computer programmer would be a perfectly sensible "God", relative to this reality. But I don't think I've ever heard a theist accept this as a "God".
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