RE: The Christian God is NOT simple.
July 13, 2011 at 2:14 pm
(This post was last modified: July 13, 2011 at 2:47 pm by Anomalocaris.)
If god is not exclusively love, then god is complex. Hope you can see pass the bull to this. If you were to see past this, you might find even if god is just exclusively one concept, naming that concept with one word does not reduce the complexity the concept must embody so as to become a thing the worshipping of which and prayer to which isn't just a complete waste of time. The thing must embody an enormous amount of highly organized information before worshipping it can Even in theory produce anything more than psychosomatic results. But that's just to empower it understand and grant prayer you might conceive to make with your limited and timid mind. A mafia don who has browbeaten you can do that.
If the concept of omniscience were to have any meaning, then the thing most embody an amount of information equal to or, if it has a plan for the universe which can not materialize without its intervention, greater than to all the information which exists of the universe. In other words, it must be as or more complex, and therefore as or more improbable, than all other things combined.
So if something happened, but whatever the magnitude of it's improbability without god, the magnitude of improbability of there having been a god to guide it's occurrence must be at least as great, if that's the only thing god ever did, or greater still, if god is said to have done a whole lot of other things as well.
So rather then saying god is complex, we might say god can't be used to address complexity paradox. A universe with a god that can make improbable thing happen is less probable than an improbable thing happening by itself without god.
If the concept of omniscience were to have any meaning, then the thing most embody an amount of information equal to or, if it has a plan for the universe which can not materialize without its intervention, greater than to all the information which exists of the universe. In other words, it must be as or more complex, and therefore as or more improbable, than all other things combined.
So if something happened, but whatever the magnitude of it's improbability without god, the magnitude of improbability of there having been a god to guide it's occurrence must be at least as great, if that's the only thing god ever did, or greater still, if god is said to have done a whole lot of other things as well.
So rather then saying god is complex, we might say god can't be used to address complexity paradox. A universe with a god that can make improbable thing happen is less probable than an improbable thing happening by itself without god.