Thing is, there is literally no way to arrive at the idea of any god purely based on observation of the world. Without presupposing a god concept from the outset, nothing - from the behaviour of atoms to the movement of galaxies - comes with a label saying "handmade by a sexually repressed Middle Eastern deity (see manual for further information)", nor even remotely suggests anything like that. You would need someone to impose that concept on top of the evidence, whether that be a book of mythology or a preacher selling it to you.
Put simply, if our entire body of knowledge was wiped out tomorrow, all the discoveries of science would still be there to be rediscovered. Every god ever worshipped would be deleted forever.
Put simply, if our entire body of knowledge was wiped out tomorrow, all the discoveries of science would still be there to be rediscovered. Every god ever worshipped would be deleted forever.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
