RE: An unorthodox belief in God.
June 9, 2014 at 7:56 pm
(This post was last modified: June 9, 2014 at 8:01 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(June 8, 2014 at 8:58 pm)mickiel Wrote: I am content with reading Julian Jaynes work on consciousness; I learn a lot from him.
If your views cannot withstand testing, they're probably not worth holding. And if you test your views and find them wanting, you have the opportunity to refine them in accordance with a tighter model of reality.
Being satisfied with any one source in such a complex and uncertain quesiton as conscousness is not the brightest thing I could think of doing. Of course, I don't have a dogma to which I must adhere, either. I'm sure that could have an effect on one's willingness to explore new avenues of knowledge, don't you agree?
(June 8, 2014 at 9:11 pm)mickiel Wrote: Why would god want any wherelse inhabitable, when his focus is on us here on earth?
What makes you think you know the mind of your putative god?
But, to answer your question: Assuming for the sake of discussion your god's existence, you clearly haven't considered the possibility that he might love living things so much that humankind is not his only creation.
(June 8, 2014 at 9:11 pm)mickiel Wrote: You miss another evidence of him right there. If life is random chance, how come no other area in this vastness got so lucky?
Since life is not due to random chance, I will disregard this question, for having a flawed premise.
But, what makes you think that there are no other sentient life-forms on other planets?
