RE: Eight Year Old Gets It
August 29, 2012 at 10:36 pm
(This post was last modified: August 29, 2012 at 10:44 pm by Cyberman.)
(August 29, 2012 at 11:38 am)Napoléon Wrote:(August 29, 2012 at 2:56 am)aleialoura Wrote: He told his father that if he ever observes a god, he will then ask that question
Maybe I'm being pedantic but surely if he observed god then his question would already be answered...
Not necessarily, if I can be pedantic for a moment. I know that if I were to observe something that fits all the criteria of a god, that for me would still not be enough to convince me that it actually was a god. For all I know, it might be some super-advanced species of alien (the extraterrestrial kind). Or I could be having some powerfully intense and vivid mind-feck causing me to have the experience of meeting this 'god'.
I know I tend to cite this a lot, but there was a caller to The Atheist Experience talking about almost this very thing; essentially, if memory serves, he said that if he met such a being, then "if it's that powerful, I'd call it a god". To my mind there's a whole, vast range of options to explore before you get to "god".
@aleia: As I read your news, I could actually feel the pride you must be feeling. I can't express it in words, but clearly you must be doing something right as a parent to have raised such a bright lad. I can only wonder if our son might have turned out half as smart, or if I'd have had your parenting skills. I know I'll be forever grateful to my own parents for teaching me to think for myself. I hope this is a good sign for the coming generations.
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.'
