RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god.
August 29, 2017 at 8:51 am
IMO, only possible god would be very different from one we anthropomorphize, so I don't agree with any of those options.
Think about it. Would a timeless, eternal god even consider life as important for its creation? it's easy to put ourselves in the centerpiece because we and life on Earth is all we know. A lot of what can be imagined beyond our Earth would be negligible for a god. Such a god, IMO, would probably only concern itself with more interesting aspects of its creation, like seeing events unfold which it would not be able to predict the outcome for (would it even have omni-attributes?) like black holes or, quantum "foaming", but this already partially anthropomorphizes a god and its possible attributes, like human emotions of boredom, excitement, etc. Maybe it would never become bored because it just stared at the internal fusion of a M-class star for a few millions years before going onto staring at particle/virtual particle pairs forming on the edge of a black hole's event horizon.
This assumes a lot of the attributes and abilities of a creator god.
Think about it. Would a timeless, eternal god even consider life as important for its creation? it's easy to put ourselves in the centerpiece because we and life on Earth is all we know. A lot of what can be imagined beyond our Earth would be negligible for a god. Such a god, IMO, would probably only concern itself with more interesting aspects of its creation, like seeing events unfold which it would not be able to predict the outcome for (would it even have omni-attributes?) like black holes or, quantum "foaming", but this already partially anthropomorphizes a god and its possible attributes, like human emotions of boredom, excitement, etc. Maybe it would never become bored because it just stared at the internal fusion of a M-class star for a few millions years before going onto staring at particle/virtual particle pairs forming on the edge of a black hole's event horizon.
This assumes a lot of the attributes and abilities of a creator god.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard P. Feynman
