RE: Can Consciousness Best Be Explained by God's Existence?
March 30, 2014 at 4:45 pm
(This post was last modified: March 30, 2014 at 4:48 pm by Ryantology.)
(March 29, 2014 at 10:53 pm)Rayaan Wrote:(March 29, 2014 at 9:14 pm)Ryantology (╯°◊°)╯︵ ══╬ Wrote: There are many, many different qualifications that any God lacks which make it an insufficient explanation for anything.
What are some of those qualifications exactly?
God cannot be measured, observed, or scrutinized. Even if we were to dismiss empirical methods, God can't even be interviewed (nor would he be likely to cooperate, otherwise we would know already). God's effects cannot be compared relative to anything God might explain. Even if God actually was the initial source of consciousness, it still wouldn't explain the nature of consciousness. You'd simply be giving up one concept you can't explain for another concept you can't explain. No useful knowledge would be obtained. It puts us absolutely no closer to accomplishing the goal of explaining what it is and how it works.
God has all the explanatory power of a shrug of the shoulders.
