RE: God: No magic required
November 7, 2014 at 3:31 pm
(This post was last modified: November 7, 2014 at 3:33 pm by lweisenthal.)
Hi, Esquilax,
You object:
By invoking God's "attributes," you are needlessly introducing dogma and doctrine. God's "attributes" are much less definable than God's simple existence. For the present purposes, God is simply a higher order of sentience, capable of communicating with lower orders of sentience, the latter of which benefit in terms of comfort, solace, inspiration, courage, escape from addictive behaviors, perseverance, happiness, and even longevity -- all of which have been documented in the peer review medical literature to be benefits of religion, including "spirituality."
There is a debate among physicists regarding the reality of the multiverse theory, although there is now a critical mass of truly esteemed physicists supporting it. But even skeptical physicists don't flatly foreclose the possibility. The concept of the Boltzmann Brain (organized, sentient wireless energy) is likewise deemed to be plausible, again, even among skeptics.
I think that theoretical physics offers a role model for the discipline of theoretical theology, including atheism, regarding the intellectual poison of certitude.
- Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach CA
You object:
(November 7, 2014 at 3:16 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Sorry, but "sentience existing in another universe," no matter how powerful, does not read as any meaningful concept of god, because it contains none of the other attributes of god.
By invoking God's "attributes," you are needlessly introducing dogma and doctrine. God's "attributes" are much less definable than God's simple existence. For the present purposes, God is simply a higher order of sentience, capable of communicating with lower orders of sentience, the latter of which benefit in terms of comfort, solace, inspiration, courage, escape from addictive behaviors, perseverance, happiness, and even longevity -- all of which have been documented in the peer review medical literature to be benefits of religion, including "spirituality."
There is a debate among physicists regarding the reality of the multiverse theory, although there is now a critical mass of truly esteemed physicists supporting it. But even skeptical physicists don't flatly foreclose the possibility. The concept of the Boltzmann Brain (organized, sentient wireless energy) is likewise deemed to be plausible, again, even among skeptics.
I think that theoretical physics offers a role model for the discipline of theoretical theology, including atheism, regarding the intellectual poison of certitude.
- Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach CA
