When we say "God", we are really talking about an entity with intelligence and intent. Intelligence and intent are characteristics born out of problem solving learning and skill set dealing with environment (spacetime). All living things are intelligent and have intent in their own way to be able to fetch food or safeguard themselves against predators to be able to survive and replicate. Lions, oak trees, bacteria, humans, jellyfish, all are no exceptions.
So the idea of intelligence and intent leads us to the notion of an existing spacetime that must exist first and foremost for intelligence and intent to later exist from composition of various states of surviving. You can't have a god till you have spacetime first and foremost––Or if god is spacetime itself then spacetime doesn't have intelligence and intent. You can't have both ways. God is very specific. It communicates. It plans. It designs.
But what is spacetime anyway. Well, we can only speak in terms of our universe as that's the only example or sample we have in front of us. Anything else would merely be a hypothesis. A hypothesis still based on the sample in front of us nonetheless. You say anything that's not rooted from the confines of this sample and you'd be talking gobbledygook.
To make a very long story very short, spacetime as we know it is made up of quantum fields. Higgs, quark, electromagnetic, so on and so forth, giving rise to what we call elementary particles––12 of them as we know them in the form of Standard Model. That's your actual elementary table right there. These particles are governed by four forces. Gravity, electromagnetic force, weak nuclear force, and strong nuclear force.
That's it. Our reality is confined to standard model and four forces. There is not a thing in our world (the world of humans and animals etc) that is not governed by these things. Of course, our universe is made up of more unknown "things" that we have no clue about and there is more of that "unknown shit" than all the matter combined in the cosmos, including us, but those "unknown things" (dark energy and dark matter) still doesn't affect our reality. It interacts at the levels of galaxies etc.
So this leaves us thinking about where that god and his/her/their intelligence and intent is coming from. Remember, the intelligence and intent is very precise. Targeting just the right people to say just the right things etc etc. It knows no subtlety so some kind of weird mysterious blind energy that works in mysterious ways is out of the window if that's going to be your next defense of the indefensible. I've to say there isn't much room left. If there is a "god", that god would still be made up of the same matter rest of our reality is made up of otherwise IT WON'T BE ABLE TO INTERACT WITH our reality.
The other thing that this god would need is collaboration. You need a whole fucking civilization to be able to make a coffee cup that can keep your coffee hot for 5 hours, much less the self-replicating DNA molecule which has a lot more complexity. So a civilization must exist, with intent and intelligence, to create complex things (DNA) and then we can say aha, that's how it's done. So if your god is actually some advanced alien race that created some self-replicating molecule in a lab then it's a hypothesis that we can all accept rooted in some plausibility––although the question of how that civilization came about remain the same. But anything else is just some primitive human imaginative guess work that can't satisfactorily answer some basic fundamental question we are now able to answer using high school science.
So the idea of intelligence and intent leads us to the notion of an existing spacetime that must exist first and foremost for intelligence and intent to later exist from composition of various states of surviving. You can't have a god till you have spacetime first and foremost––Or if god is spacetime itself then spacetime doesn't have intelligence and intent. You can't have both ways. God is very specific. It communicates. It plans. It designs.
But what is spacetime anyway. Well, we can only speak in terms of our universe as that's the only example or sample we have in front of us. Anything else would merely be a hypothesis. A hypothesis still based on the sample in front of us nonetheless. You say anything that's not rooted from the confines of this sample and you'd be talking gobbledygook.
To make a very long story very short, spacetime as we know it is made up of quantum fields. Higgs, quark, electromagnetic, so on and so forth, giving rise to what we call elementary particles––12 of them as we know them in the form of Standard Model. That's your actual elementary table right there. These particles are governed by four forces. Gravity, electromagnetic force, weak nuclear force, and strong nuclear force.
That's it. Our reality is confined to standard model and four forces. There is not a thing in our world (the world of humans and animals etc) that is not governed by these things. Of course, our universe is made up of more unknown "things" that we have no clue about and there is more of that "unknown shit" than all the matter combined in the cosmos, including us, but those "unknown things" (dark energy and dark matter) still doesn't affect our reality. It interacts at the levels of galaxies etc.
So this leaves us thinking about where that god and his/her/their intelligence and intent is coming from. Remember, the intelligence and intent is very precise. Targeting just the right people to say just the right things etc etc. It knows no subtlety so some kind of weird mysterious blind energy that works in mysterious ways is out of the window if that's going to be your next defense of the indefensible. I've to say there isn't much room left. If there is a "god", that god would still be made up of the same matter rest of our reality is made up of otherwise IT WON'T BE ABLE TO INTERACT WITH our reality.
The other thing that this god would need is collaboration. You need a whole fucking civilization to be able to make a coffee cup that can keep your coffee hot for 5 hours, much less the self-replicating DNA molecule which has a lot more complexity. So a civilization must exist, with intent and intelligence, to create complex things (DNA) and then we can say aha, that's how it's done. So if your god is actually some advanced alien race that created some self-replicating molecule in a lab then it's a hypothesis that we can all accept rooted in some plausibility––although the question of how that civilization came about remain the same. But anything else is just some primitive human imaginative guess work that can't satisfactorily answer some basic fundamental question we are now able to answer using high school science.
