(July 12, 2016 at 5:15 pm)robvalue Wrote: We have loads of different theistic religions in the world right now. And every one of those claims to be the "real religion". They have it right, and everyone else has it wrong. They're worshipping the real god(s), in the correct way.
What would we expect to see from this? Let's pretend that one of these current religions is the real one.
Wouldn't it be absurdly obvious which one this is? Wouldn't those following the correct religion have some sort of noticable advantage? If God is doing anything at all in return for the worship it is receiving, wouldn't this be clear to all?
What I see is a bunch of people all claiming to have this amazing being on their side, yet none of them are any better off than any others because of it. I can only conclude that either none of them have it right, or God's blessings are so insignificant that I don't even notice them.
Here are the possibilities.
1.) "God" is not all powerful and just simply "evil" in our standards (all though some places and people still think killing non-believers/gay people is fine and threatening people with eternal torture... along with the rape of underage children and with the enslavement of non-believers).
2.) There is no god and the universe is an illusion and the people who created are universe has limited our resources and knowledge and we are their lab rats (metaphorically).
3.) The "Real God" is hiding himself from the world and just wants to see where the humans and other intelligent species take themselves before the death of the cosmos. And then this god will think of something else.
4.) There is no god, and we are the result of the fundamental forces, laws of physics, the physical expressions of maths, and the beauty of the cosmos...
It's not a matter of which is the most plausible (pseudo-science) but it is indeed a matter of which ones are the least plausible (true science).
