RE: Let's say that science proves that God exists
February 17, 2013 at 6:22 pm
(This post was last modified: February 17, 2013 at 6:23 pm by ManMachine.)
(February 8, 2013 at 8:53 am)FKHansen Wrote: Here's a fun one…
Let's say that science proves the existence of God - A perfect logical proof (with evidence) that clearly states that the universe was created by a creator. Nothing more, nothing less...
What will happen to the people on earth?
What religion would they cling to?
Would there be world peace?
We'd spend the next 2000 years argueing and killing each other about who this 'creator' that created the universe was and who were his favourites.
There would be long debates about exactly when this proof was written down and by whom and if this person really existed. Then we'd find a cave in Oxford where a scholar had hidden his hand written notes from the lectures in plastic sandwich boxes.
About 350 years ofter the theory there would be a council to decide if the scientist who published the paper was in fact the son of the creator or not and much later someone would write a 'fictional' book about his life where he gets maried and his wife will be burried in an art gallery in Paris.
Then they will elect a Pop (named after the Big Bang), after a few hundred years a schism will arise over what colour hat they should be wearing and there will (for a brief period) be 2 Pops.
Eventually a group of people will distance themselves from the idea of a Big Bang creator and call themselves acreaists and one of them will be super clever and set up a forum called acreaistsforums where one day someone will post an idea that what it if was all really real and...
On second thoughts let's not go down that road.
MM
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"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
