(August 7, 2016 at 1:29 pm)PETE_ROSE Wrote: Irrational, do you think that God is a reasonable hypothesis, and does it merit testing? If so what have you done to explore this?
If we're speaking strictly of the Creator persona of God, then that's not even logical. So how can it be a reasonable hypothesis anyway? Logically speaking, not even God can timelessly create stuff (you need time to do that in the first place), and he can certainly can't create anything out of literal nothing (for in the absolute nothingness, there is no material whatsoever to form stuff out of it).
As for God in general, I will grant that such an entity may be logical. But I don't see any reason why it matters that he exist anyway. If God exists, it doesn't look like he's necessary at all for the cosmos to exist. He just coexists.
As for assigning values or meaning to our lives, we also don't require God for that. We do a good job of this on our own.
