Only thing I’d have to quibble with is what would be evidence of “God”? I think of this because we’re always asked this question.
First, you’d have to define “God”. How to?
Something with super human powers? Like Clark Kent? Guess that would be easy enough to prove but you would have to discount magic tricks, special effects and the like.
Something worthy of worship? While, personally, I don’t think anyone’s worthy of worship, millions of Elvis fans would quibble with me but no one’s ever been able to prove to me there’s any reason I should worship him or Jehovah. Or Thor for that matter. Or why I should unless they were perfect and supernatural.
Some perfect being? How could we know they were perfect? How could we imperfect beings perceive perfection? Also, you have to get over the hurdle of said perfect being having created this mess. Evolution — which is basically trial and error really — makes sense. A creator “God” doesn’t. Because to be perfect, “God” would be incapable of making a mistake and no one can seriously argue that mistakes are nonexistant in this universe. No, free will doesn’t cover it. Because a perfect being would only be able to create other perfect beings (anything less would be a mistake, an imperfection) incapable of making the wrong choice, given it.
Frankly, I think simply put, “God” defines itself out of existence. “God”, by definition cannot exist.
December 25, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Only thing I’d have to quibble with is what would be evidence of “God”? I think of this because we’re always asked this question.
First, you’d have to define “God”. How to?
Something with super human powers? Like Clark Kent? Guess that would be easy enough to prove but you would have to discount magic tricks, special effects and the like.
Something worthy of worship? While, personally, I don’t think anyone’s worthy of worship, millions of Elvis fans would quibble with me but no one’s ever been able to prove to me there’s any reason I should worship him or Jehovah. Or Thor for that matter. Or why I should unless they were perfect and supernatural.
Some perfect being? How could we know they were perfect? How could we imperfect beings perceive perfection? Also, you have to get over the hurdle of said perfect being having created this mess. Evolution — which is basically trial and error really — makes sense. A creator “God” doesn’t. Because to be perfect, “God” would be incapable of making a mistake and no one can seriously argue that mistakes are nonexistant in this universe. No, free will doesn’t cover it. Because a perfect being would only be able to create other perfect beings (anything less would be a mistake, an imperfection) incapable of making the wrong choice, given it.
Frankly, I think simply put, “God” defines itself out of existence. “God”, by definition cannot exist.