RE: I would believe in God if...
April 6, 2017 at 7:31 am
(This post was last modified: April 6, 2017 at 7:40 am by GrandizerII.)
Suppose God is the omnimax Creator type that Jews, Christians, Muslims, and deists typically believe in.
What would make me lean strongly towards his existence is if he did something so amazing that not even a many worlds interpretation could adequately account for it (or if it could, it would be far more plausible that something "supernatural" occurred rather than natural). Example: Clearly visible words magically appearing on the wall behind the computer screen saying exactly what I'm thinking ... right .. now!
Nope, nothing. Not even a voice calling my name.
My view is that this all goes back to some form of cosmic necessity rather than luck. Consider the possibility that we may be in a multiverse of some sort. Aside from what science may perhaps reveal, there is no philosophical reason to think that anything in this cosmos is unnecessarily occurring. We exist here and now perhaps because we are inevitable expressions of the necessary existence in the here and now.
What would make me lean strongly towards his existence is if he did something so amazing that not even a many worlds interpretation could adequately account for it (or if it could, it would be far more plausible that something "supernatural" occurred rather than natural). Example: Clearly visible words magically appearing on the wall behind the computer screen saying exactly what I'm thinking ... right .. now!
Nope, nothing. Not even a voice calling my name.
(March 2, 2017 at 2:44 am)Won2blv Wrote: I ask this question, because for me, I still want to believe in a God, even though I don't. It just baffles me to think that everything just goes back to some form of cosmic luck.
My view is that this all goes back to some form of cosmic necessity rather than luck. Consider the possibility that we may be in a multiverse of some sort. Aside from what science may perhaps reveal, there is no philosophical reason to think that anything in this cosmos is unnecessarily occurring. We exist here and now perhaps because we are inevitable expressions of the necessary existence in the here and now.
