RE: Ignosticism, Theism, or Gnostic Atheism
January 30, 2022 at 8:18 pm
(This post was last modified: January 30, 2022 at 9:08 pm by Ferrocyanide.)
(January 29, 2022 at 7:41 pm)Ahriman Wrote: But what if your God is a flesh and blood human being?
It depends on your definition of god.
If a human from the future traveled back in time and perhaps he placed some primitive cells on Earth so that evolution would be underway, sure, I suppose that is possible.
I wouldn't call that guy a god and I would not build churches and I would not baptize kids with water.
Reading about his scientific work as to how he made that primitive cell would be interesting.
If the guys who started life on Earth are some aliens from another planet in this universe, or maybe they are aliens from another universe..... same deal.
I wouldn't call those guys “gods”.
Saying “praise thee, oh glorious god”, bowing down and other such actions looks like a big waste of time.
I am more interested about that human or that alien and their scientific work rather than treating them as magicians.
Note: if we are going to do a scientific investigation as to how life started on Earth, I would go with naturalism. The different hypothesis for abiogenesis are interesting, specially the RNA world hypothesis.
