RE: The absolute absurdity of God
August 6, 2018 at 11:50 am
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2018 at 12:02 pm by I_am_not_mafia.)
(August 6, 2018 at 10:58 am)Simon Moon Wrote: It all boils down to this, theists expect us to buy into, the idea that their god created a universe, with at least 100 billion galaxies, each with at least 100 billion stars, and an untold number of planets (the count is currently 3815 exoplants in our limited galactic neighborhood alone), black holes, asteroids, etc, etc.
And the main function of all of this? To be a "Soul Filtering Machine" for a bunch of hairless apes on one of all those countless planets.
Every once in a while it really hits me how ridiculous theistic beliefs are.
Furthermore Mr God and Heaven must exist separately in a different dimension even though he can continually sense, consider and act within our three dimensions. Mr God also has to be close enough so that signals from us and commands from him have no discernible latency because he is limited by the speed of light. To put this into context, the sun is 499 light seconds from us.
Unless the Xtians claim that there are physical signals that exceed the speed of light that we have not yet discovered, And they do need to be physical if Mr God can hear our prayers, sense what is making us ill and then interact with our bodies and environment. And even if that were so then Mr God needs to be able to process everything, such as the neural firing patterns in our brain and how that relates to our environment. And what powers these prayers?
(Mr God, Heaven and Hell also have to violate the second law of Themodynamics if they are to be eternal.)
And if the Xtians argue that Mr God can do all that, then it's great because it means that it should be possible for us to harness an infinite energy source somehow and wean ourselves off cheap oil with all its pollution. All we would need to do is have people praying in front of some device that can capture the energy from prayers to power our cities.