RE: Atheist struggling to answer a question i often propose to myself
August 24, 2017 at 4:45 pm
(August 24, 2017 at 2:39 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(August 24, 2017 at 12:11 pm)budsa11 Wrote: i'm wondering if you can help me im an atheist but am struggling to answer a question i often propose to myself it goes something like this...as far as we can see humans right now are as intelligent as we can get, but growing up we do not have the intelligence capacity to comprehend our surrounding. ...What if we, right NOW are at this point in time, at our current level of intelligence are in the same position as the Ant and Toddler? Could there be an unknown Force, Entity, that just the same as we are unknown to the ant and the toddler to his or her world, that is looking at us as we look at the ant?
Yes, but such an entity would not be the God of Classical Theism. Such an entity would be just another being in a world of beings. From Aristotle and Plotinus to Anselm and Aquinas God is the inconceivable & ultimate hypostatis in whom everything "moves, lives, and has its being." He is the eternal and self-sustaining Being-in-Itself, the "I AM." And unlike some distant and grand invisible being, God makes Himself known to all through the light of reason and through the world's intelligibility.
Frankly I'm much more comfortable with the idea of infinite layers of ever more mega beings each oblivious to the many layers below them than I am with the idea of a single God which somehow finite little we have decided must be the "ultimate", "eternal", "self-sustaining" omega-everything.
The former which our new member brought up at least keeps in mind perspective where yours just glibly assumes things we are in no position to know.
