RE: I don't believe in Christianity primarily because of the brain
September 5, 2016 at 1:34 pm
(This post was last modified: September 5, 2016 at 1:34 pm by Excited Penguin.)
I don't believe in it for a different reason.
If a God created the Universe, it's either the Universe itself or a distinct entity from another Universe who created ours as a simulation. More or less those two are the only logical conclusions I can draw if I am to allow for a deity. If it's the former, there's no use calling it God or anything else for that matter, it's what it always was, Nature, Cosmos, take your pick. It's as mysterious and wonderful as ever, I don't like calling it a name with such ugly baggage. But if it's the latter, then that's a perfectly reasonable hypothesis, one many people take seriously. We might one day have the computational power to create such simulations ourselves. Will we have been God(s) too then?
If a God created the Universe, it's either the Universe itself or a distinct entity from another Universe who created ours as a simulation. More or less those two are the only logical conclusions I can draw if I am to allow for a deity. If it's the former, there's no use calling it God or anything else for that matter, it's what it always was, Nature, Cosmos, take your pick. It's as mysterious and wonderful as ever, I don't like calling it a name with such ugly baggage. But if it's the latter, then that's a perfectly reasonable hypothesis, one many people take seriously. We might one day have the computational power to create such simulations ourselves. Will we have been God(s) too then?
