RE: Why Would God Hide?
September 8, 2014 at 2:04 pm
(This post was last modified: September 8, 2014 at 2:05 pm by Cyberman.)
(September 8, 2014 at 1:47 pm)naimless Wrote: One could also then argue though, regarding the belief of god, that it is more extraordinary for one of the human species to be an atheist. Indeed complete and total rejection of spiritual experience is an anomaly in the grand scheme of human experience. An extraordinary claim.
Even were that true, it would be an argument that would itself require supporting.
The way the game is set up is that we have a system - from the larger Universe right down to our place in it - which apparently operates all by itself under physical and other laws that are known and understood (or at the very least knowable). Along comes a theist asserting an extra layer of complexity not evident or implied by the system under analysis. Here's a perfect illustration of the point:
![[Image: stone-optical-illusion-blog480.png]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=graphics8.nytimes.com%2Fimages%2F2014%2F09%2F05%2Fopinion%2Fstone-optical-illusion%2Fstone-optical-illusion-blog480.png)
Which is 'more real' in this picture - the black partial circles, or the white square projected by our perception and which vanishes completely when investigated?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
