RE: If there is a creator, so what?
March 16, 2015 at 5:08 am
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2015 at 5:09 am by WinterHold.)
(March 11, 2015 at 7:28 am)robvalue Wrote: My stance has always been that it may be possible that some sort of intelligence created our universe/reality. Currently I see no reason to conclude that there is.
But if there is one:
1) We don't know if it still exists
2) We have found no evidence of it within our universe/reality
3) We have no current means to learn anything about things outside our universe/reality, if such a thing is even coherent
My conclusion is that it is entirely irrelevant, unless new evidence emerges. In other words, it makes no practical difference to me if there is a creator.
There's all these arguments trying to establish a generic creator, such as Kalam or intelligent design. Call the creator God if you want, we haven't learnt anything about it just by giving it a title. So if I let your arguments stand, and there is a creator, can you tell me what difference it should make to me?
Well, I always thought that observing the world would lead you to one outcome : what you mentioned as the possibility of the existence of the entity i.e intelligent design.
Yet, checking truths which aren't visible -such as time- and how it actually keeps counting, might lead you too that the entity does actually exist until this day ; though, this also isn't a strong evidence.
If I suspected an entity such as god existed, then heard rumors that this entity "DID" communicate with humans, I would give it a try to investigate what the entity said ; though, hell & heaven along with the afterlife concept itself is what would be the main concern that make you care.