(September 20, 2011 at 8:19 pm)IATIA Wrote: Why did god create all this? Was he bored? Could not find anything else to do? What was he doing before this? When he gets tired of these toys, then what?
I can guess that the common theist answer is that we can't even approach understanding God's motivation for such things, therefore it is futile to speculate.
Asking these kind of questions though defeats the whole purpose of a belief in god, which is ascribing meaning to an existence that is otherwise pointless in the grand scheme of things.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
