I say it's God if he/she/it created the universe - and was there right from the beginning 'always' or from 'BEFORE the beginning' - whatever that would mean..
Could be an extremely complex superbeing that created the universe - I don't think it would have to NECESSARILY be entirely omnipotent/omnipresent/omniscient or perfect, etc.
I think just some kind of superbeing that created the universe is enough of a definition for me.
(i.e - the supposed creator of the universe).
An evolved God wouldn't count... it wouldn't be a 'God' since, if it evolved - then it can't have created the universe...whether it created life on earth, our planet, our solar, system or our galaxy (or our universe IF there are many universes) - it didn't start off the universe itself (or existence itself) - for it has evolved from something else - it is NOT the beginning.
A super-duper super ALIEN life form superbeing for example then, that created life on earth, our galaxy or whatever - (it would have to be pretty fucking super but nevertheless,) - that wouldn't count as God.
God would have to be the creator of the universe itself (or existence itself, if there are more than one universes) - God would have to be something eternal that created (or at least 'started off') the whole of existence. Something eternal, right from the beginning - an alien wouldn't count.
But as Adrian has explained - in practical terms this wouldn't mean anything, since there is no way we could tell the difference between a super alien creator and the genuine article, "God".
EvF
Could be an extremely complex superbeing that created the universe - I don't think it would have to NECESSARILY be entirely omnipotent/omnipresent/omniscient or perfect, etc.
I think just some kind of superbeing that created the universe is enough of a definition for me.
(i.e - the supposed creator of the universe).
An evolved God wouldn't count... it wouldn't be a 'God' since, if it evolved - then it can't have created the universe...whether it created life on earth, our planet, our solar, system or our galaxy (or our universe IF there are many universes) - it didn't start off the universe itself (or existence itself) - for it has evolved from something else - it is NOT the beginning.
A super-duper super ALIEN life form superbeing for example then, that created life on earth, our galaxy or whatever - (it would have to be pretty fucking super but nevertheless,) - that wouldn't count as God.
God would have to be the creator of the universe itself (or existence itself, if there are more than one universes) - God would have to be something eternal that created (or at least 'started off') the whole of existence. Something eternal, right from the beginning - an alien wouldn't count.
But as Adrian has explained - in practical terms this wouldn't mean anything, since there is no way we could tell the difference between a super alien creator and the genuine article, "God".
EvF
