Esquilax already tore your post down, but I'll just add a few things here and there.
Why should a god require that I accept your view/interpretation of what other humans wrote about that god?
What does god need with a starship?!!?
There is a very real chance that all the constituents of the Universe have always been there... under some other guise, true, but it was always there... at some point, for whatever reason, we got the big bang. Krauss's major point on this is that, adding up all the energy and anti-energy you get a nice fat ZERO. Conservation of energy? check!
A God-like interference would have added some energy into this mix and the whole would be far from zero.
So.... on the whole, the Universe is nothing.
Try to wrap your head around that... it's not easy, even I have some difficulty with it...
We see a complex universe... well, not that complex, but a bit more complex than "sleep, eat, fuck & die".
So our limited comprehension leaps to some higher intelligence behind that "complexity"... I wouldn't make such a leap. There may be other explanations. Why don't we try to find them, instead of getting stuck in one that has no evidence to support it?
Way to go, supes!
Now, the same for Wolverine, Spiderman, The Spawn, Freddy Kruger, darth vader, yoda, etc...
The Nothing which is empty space is not really nothing. It's full of virtual particles and fields.
This view of Jesus was made up some time later. Here's what a scholar of the subject says:
But where is this being? How did you get to know this about it?
Let me guess: someone told you, someone wrote about it in a book.
Well, I will only accept such information coming directly from the origin. I dislike the human chain of information transfer regarding this kind of entities. Too many inventions get put in the story along the way...
How do you know there was a time when time and space did not exist?
(July 30, 2013 at 9:35 pm)BettyG Wrote: I need to define some things about the nature of God.And why should a god require you, lowly human, to define these things?
Why should a god require that I accept your view/interpretation of what other humans wrote about that god?
What does god need with a starship?!!?
(July 30, 2013 at 9:35 pm)BettyG Wrote: The whole point I'm getting at is that there had to be some being that did not need to be created. This something we know from logic since the universe did not and cannot create itself.And this is the part of Krauss's book that you failed to understand.
There is a very real chance that all the constituents of the Universe have always been there... under some other guise, true, but it was always there... at some point, for whatever reason, we got the big bang. Krauss's major point on this is that, adding up all the energy and anti-energy you get a nice fat ZERO. Conservation of energy? check!
A God-like interference would have added some energy into this mix and the whole would be far from zero.
So.... on the whole, the Universe is nothing.
Try to wrap your head around that... it's not easy, even I have some difficulty with it...
(July 30, 2013 at 9:35 pm)BettyG Wrote: There had to be an intelligent being to create it because we observe a complex universe.Aren't you working backwards?
We see a complex universe... well, not that complex, but a bit more complex than "sleep, eat, fuck & die".
So our limited comprehension leaps to some higher intelligence behind that "complexity"... I wouldn't make such a leap. There may be other explanations. Why don't we try to find them, instead of getting stuck in one that has no evidence to support it?
(July 30, 2013 at 9:35 pm)BettyG Wrote: God is the nth degree of perfection, so since to be a being is a greater perfection than not being a being, God is a being.Superman is the nth degree of perfection... n=10?... so since to be a being is a greater perfection than not being a being, superman is a being.
Way to go, supes!
Now, the same for Wolverine, Spiderman, The Spawn, Freddy Kruger, darth vader, yoda, etc...
(July 30, 2013 at 9:35 pm)BettyG Wrote: Nothing comes from nothing.Krauss is still making your head ache, huh?
The Nothing which is empty space is not really nothing. It's full of virtual particles and fields.
(July 30, 2013 at 9:35 pm)BettyG Wrote: God is not a thing, though Jesus did take on flesh about 0 AD give or take a few.
This view of Jesus was made up some time later. Here's what a scholar of the subject says:
(July 30, 2013 at 9:35 pm)BettyG Wrote: Since He is uncreated, He is not limited by time and space. Instead, He created time and space.No, space-time seems to have always been there.
(July 30, 2013 at 9:35 pm)BettyG Wrote: By definition, God is the uncaused cause of everything. God, by definition, is eternal, omniscient, and omnipotent.Yes... a pretty definition.
But where is this being? How did you get to know this about it?
Let me guess: someone told you, someone wrote about it in a book.
Well, I will only accept such information coming directly from the origin. I dislike the human chain of information transfer regarding this kind of entities. Too many inventions get put in the story along the way...
(July 30, 2013 at 9:35 pm)BettyG Wrote: The Higgs particle and other particles had to be created, so they exist in time and space because there was a time when they did not exist. So you cannot compare the characteristics of God to particles.
How do you know there was a time when time and space did not exist?