Yeah its interesting. I would welcome a God - if it really exists of course - if, it (I'll just say it) was a supernatural mysterious bringer of this universe and it used evolution.
If it was a person, a he/she though, I'd certainly like to know how he/she justifies allowing all the horror to go on when he/she has the power to do so much better, stop so much suffering for instance.
If its just some really mysterious creator that basically created the universe and has a mind but isn't really capable of intervening (a deist God for instance) I think I'd perhaps be fine with that actually.
Whatever's true is interesting. But if morality comes into the picture - if God isn't just a creator but also an intervener - I'd certainly like to know why it allows so much suffering to go on and doesn't do a better job! Considering it is powerful enough to create, the design the (at least beginning) of the universe. And somehow have the power to just be right at the beginning without any explanation all whatsoever. Which is statistically just as improbable as if right at the very beginning God "just happened" and came out of nothing. Simply declaring God was there is a cop-out of course. Probability wise its just the same as it popping into existence right from the outset. And before that there was nothing or whatever.
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P.S: I just noticed, rewatching the video. It seems that Dawkins said he'd be delighted if God turned out to be there when he died? Dawkins said he'd be pleasantly surprised and would love to have an intelligent conversation with him.
Of course its just as possible that if there is a God that there is no afterlife. I wonder if it would at all be any different if that was the case? I wonder if somehow finding evidence of a God but not being able to actually get to ask questions of him/her/it would be quite as thrilling as being able to actually talk to (and with) him/her/it after death.
If it was a person, a he/she though, I'd certainly like to know how he/she justifies allowing all the horror to go on when he/she has the power to do so much better, stop so much suffering for instance.
If its just some really mysterious creator that basically created the universe and has a mind but isn't really capable of intervening (a deist God for instance) I think I'd perhaps be fine with that actually.
Whatever's true is interesting. But if morality comes into the picture - if God isn't just a creator but also an intervener - I'd certainly like to know why it allows so much suffering to go on and doesn't do a better job! Considering it is powerful enough to create, the design the (at least beginning) of the universe. And somehow have the power to just be right at the beginning without any explanation all whatsoever. Which is statistically just as improbable as if right at the very beginning God "just happened" and came out of nothing. Simply declaring God was there is a cop-out of course. Probability wise its just the same as it popping into existence right from the outset. And before that there was nothing or whatever.
Evf
P.S: I just noticed, rewatching the video. It seems that Dawkins said he'd be delighted if God turned out to be there when he died? Dawkins said he'd be pleasantly surprised and would love to have an intelligent conversation with him.
Of course its just as possible that if there is a God that there is no afterlife. I wonder if it would at all be any different if that was the case? I wonder if somehow finding evidence of a God but not being able to actually get to ask questions of him/her/it would be quite as thrilling as being able to actually talk to (and with) him/her/it after death.
