RE: If you were to make a book claiming to be revealed by God, how would you start?
April 7, 2013 at 5:41 pm
(April 7, 2013 at 2:07 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Well the thing is God is in the imagination of people. God if he existed really must be beyond our imagination. I have no idea how God would talk if he existed, but tend to think, he would not talk, because then every talk would be below his intellect and show an intellect below his intellect.
People manage to communicate with each other all the time, in spite of differences in levels of intellect, understanding, maturity, and so on. Heck, we've managed to find ways to communicate with some non-humans to a limited degree. A being as powerful as what we imagine god to be should have no issues at all making his thoughts known to us in a manner that we could understand, unless he was a spectacularly inept designer.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
