At the very least, you can take from the Bible that Yahweh is a person with a mind and emotions and desires and wants. From there it can get a bit nebulous. He can take physical form but is otherwise composed of materials that are either supernatural or currently outside of our comprehension. He has the energy, patience, and know-how to have created the whole universe, which we now understand would have been a tremendous undertaking. He has a fascination with names and lists, and with finding some pretty complicated ways of getting things straightened out (perhaps a function of his eternal nature).
I think that it's when we get past the stuff that makes him a person, and start on the stuff that makes him a god, that things start to get a bit messy. At that point we're into "metaphysics." Which is a branch of science that we used to call "stuff we made up when we were kids."
I think that it's when we get past the stuff that makes him a person, and start on the stuff that makes him a god, that things start to get a bit messy. At that point we're into "metaphysics." Which is a branch of science that we used to call "stuff we made up when we were kids."
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
