(October 3, 2009 at 3:05 pm)solarwave Wrote: That would be some pretty amazing technology. Faith I suppose. When you start talking about super advanced aliens though it isn't such a big leap to God.
So,
1. How, with 'Faith', can "God" be distinguished from a super advanced Alien pretending to be God? It could be utterly indistinguishable.
2. It may not be a big leap of Faith, from the way people conventionally think. But rationally thinking, the thing is - as I have said: God is much less likely than the Alien because the Alien actually has an explanation, Evolution, whereas "God" is simply said to be there from the beginning (or before the beginning - 'outside time itself', 'non-temporal'), or even to have created himself. This completely lacks explanation, unlike the super advanced Alien that is indistinguishable form him.
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