God of the Gaps

[Nine]

Hide and seek is good fun but it gets old after a few billion years.

[Kayenneh]

I'm willing to bet that if we ever find something, it will look something like this:

[Wheeler1552]

I guess the best way to explain it would be to use my own thoughts.

If you want more a more specific definition of what I meant by 'God-like', then I would firstly say a 'creator' of some kind. Not something that 'created' the Earth (We *know* Earth wasn't 'created' as it says in the bible, after all), but something that came 'before' the universe, in a sense. (I'll admit I'm no physicist, and so I'm not clued up on whether we know what existed before the Big Bang or even if the concept of 'before the universe' is possible, so if someone could enlighten me on that I'd much appreciate it!).

If there was a being that existed outside the universe in such a way, there's a good chance we wouldn't recognise it as a being in the traditional sense - I've always been facisnated by the idea of the 'Shadow Biome', which is essentially the concept that there might be a whole other life system on our planet that we simply don't see because we're so set in out ways of what 'life' has to look and act like. This would be similar, and could resemble a deity in that sense.

In other words, I suppose I'm kind of being deliberately vague. My point was that we don't know what lies outside our universe. It could be anything, and I just find that fascinating.

Again, I'll stress that I'm just talking about the *possibility*, but I'm still interested to know what people think!

[Faith No More]

Lots of things are "possible." The more important question is what is probable?

[downbeatplumb]

IMO, even the staunchest atheists have to be open to the idea that a God-like being could exist in cases where we have gaps in scientific knowledge. Think about the Big Bang - even if it did create the universe, what was there beforehand? What lies outside the boundaries of our universe?

Thoughts?

Nope.

I'm afraid you've rather missed the fact that the god of the bible is such a vastly stupid idea that the chances of it being what actually happened are so small that it's not worth considering.

Sometimes "we don't know" needs to be followed with "but I know its not that"

[Minimalist]

IMO, even the staunchest atheists have to be open to the idea that a God-like being could exist in cases where we have gaps in scientific knowledge.

The only gap that your fucking god can fill is between your ears.

I'll wait patiently for science to find the answers rather than adopting iron age bullshit.

[Jerome]

No one really knows but some people think that the universe stretches into infinity while others think that there are more than one universe. But there has to be something that goes infinitely. Because if the universe exists then what's outside of that? and outside of that? It'll drive you crazy trying to think of the answer. But truly no one knows and I doubt that we will know.

[downbeatplumb]

Its turtles all the way down.

[Kayenneh]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMNry4PE93Y

[thesummerqueen]

Hey...why does something that comes "before" have to be called "a god"?

I feel like you've read too much Celtic myth.