RE: On non-belief and the existence of God
August 21, 2014 at 9:39 am
(This post was last modified: August 21, 2014 at 9:41 am by bennyboy.)
I think Genesis makes a pretty clear philosophical statement: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
It's hard to argue that this is meant literally, since it's clearly showing that God and the Word are simultaneously the same entity and separate. Now, I'm not saying early theologians knew about photons, but that kind of paradoxical description: "A photon is a wave, or a particle, but it's kind of both, but not really" seems to be applicable to a lot of real things in our universe. Another one: "The Big Bang is the beginning the universe, but did not exactly create it, because before t0 there was no such thing as time as such. So it doesn't even make sense to say anything created the universe-- but here we are wtf?"
You could make this kind of paradoxical narrative about almost any subject: the brain creates the mind, but nothing is really created because mind is just brain function, so mind and brain function are kind of different but not really (assuming physical monism here).
It's hard to argue that this is meant literally, since it's clearly showing that God and the Word are simultaneously the same entity and separate. Now, I'm not saying early theologians knew about photons, but that kind of paradoxical description: "A photon is a wave, or a particle, but it's kind of both, but not really" seems to be applicable to a lot of real things in our universe. Another one: "The Big Bang is the beginning the universe, but did not exactly create it, because before t0 there was no such thing as time as such. So it doesn't even make sense to say anything created the universe-- but here we are wtf?"
You could make this kind of paradoxical narrative about almost any subject: the brain creates the mind, but nothing is really created because mind is just brain function, so mind and brain function are kind of different but not really (assuming physical monism here).
