I kind of like the idea that if we are created in god's image, we can know god as a person pretty well just from knowing ourselves. Humans are imaginative and creative creatures with great problem-solving skills. I mean, we seem to spend a lot of time thinking up problems just so we can solve them! We create and build amazing things, often going through a process of failed experiments and screw-ups until we get it right, then we add to what we've learned and keep making it better.
Maybe that is god. Maybe this universe is the first he made, or the eighteenth. Maybe Earth is the thiry-fourth planet in this universe that he seeded with life and he checks on us every now and then and chuckles at some of the crazy stuff we imagine about him (and face-palms at some of the more gruesome stuff). Maybe he sees us the way we see our video game creations, so that watching us torment and kill each other is just his version of Call of Duty (or the NFL). Maybe he already perfected humanity and world-building and out there is a utopian world with people who are super happy and enjoying life because goddamn... he finally got it right!
Maybe that is god. Maybe this universe is the first he made, or the eighteenth. Maybe Earth is the thiry-fourth planet in this universe that he seeded with life and he checks on us every now and then and chuckles at some of the crazy stuff we imagine about him (and face-palms at some of the more gruesome stuff). Maybe he sees us the way we see our video game creations, so that watching us torment and kill each other is just his version of Call of Duty (or the NFL). Maybe he already perfected humanity and world-building and out there is a utopian world with people who are super happy and enjoying life because goddamn... he finally got it right!
"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
