(August 1, 2010 at 12:34 pm)Spencer Wrote: Ive always thought that was an interesting question, but have yet to hear an argument.
What stance do Christians in general take on the inception of God?
I'm not christian, so I'm not qualified to answer that question, but this is a really good question.
So this birthed my thought for the day:
I was thinking about the idea of 'irreducable complexity' - the intelligent design idea that things need a designer because they are too complex to have formed in nature and therefore imply that a designer is neccesary to explain its existance.
It also goes into the whole '2nd law' ridiculousness because creationists argue that entropy prohibits the idea that the Earth can form complex organisms out of simpler materials. (The idea is bunk because the Earth isn't itself a closed system - all life on the planet gets its energy directly or indirectly from the sun, among other sources).
That said, God is supposed to have the greatest intellect and wisdom in the known universe and there is no evolutionary basis for that level of complexity in existance - certainly not before creation (since there was only darkness) so by this logic:
God had to be created by an intelligent designer
So, I can conclude that this means one of two things:
1) Humans created god (the actual answer) which may very well mean that we are the true superior intelligence in the story of the Earth
2) Intelligent Design's own logic defeats itself (also the actual answer, but using a method I haven't seen before)
3) God had a desiger and that designer had a designer and that designer had a designer - and this goes on and on until someone somewhere can state how the first divine designer came into being. I wonder if I could get the discovery institute to attempt to answer this question by attempting to state that god evolved from a monkey god.
Like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyxmTGt9H2E
So... yeah. That was my thought for the day. I think there may have just been a point in there somewhere, maybe.
And now a third (forth now, with pastafarianism) perspective on evolution in schools:
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=...=574#comic