Here's my take on it. Throughout history there have been many things that were held to be manifestations of gods, or at least under thair direct control. Thunder and lightning, day and night, the changing seasons, the tides, the motions of the planets, eclipses, rainbows - you name it and a god was behind it. Or if you're of the montheistic persuasion, one god to rule them all (as long as we don't count all the angels and saints etc that are essentially gods in all but name). The ancient Greeks were the first to realise that if we are to make any real progress in understanding the world, we must examine the natural forces controlling these things. Thus humanity has dispelled the darkness of superstition with the piercing light of knowledge, one by one revealing the principles of the natural world. Now we know how and why things work, and what we don't yet fully understand, we have the tools to investigate. One by one the gods have fallen out of the picture, replaced by natural forces obeying natural laws which can be understood.
Just about the only gap left for a god to hide in is the microsecond at the point of the Big Bang. Certainly science hasn't yet been able to probe that spot. However, given that naturalistic explanations have a modest track record of 100% success, there doesn't seem to be much justification for painting a face on whatever lurks there.
Just about the only gap left for a god to hide in is the microsecond at the point of the Big Bang. Certainly science hasn't yet been able to probe that spot. However, given that naturalistic explanations have a modest track record of 100% success, there doesn't seem to be much justification for painting a face on whatever lurks there.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
