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the GOD theory

submitted by enoch

1 decade 5 years 2 months ago

one person's theory on god.not exactly a new idea,but one that makes religion irrelevant.
from Y/T poster:
Video discusses why it is possible to believe in both science and God, a God that is compatible with the Big Bang and evolution. Is there a plausible purpose behind the Universe consistent with modern astrophysics?

to paraphrase:the universe was created by a creator for the sole purpose of creation.consciousness was created so the creator could experience itself through its own creation.henceforth god experiences itself through everything you experience and your experiences are contextualized through the very universe that god created.
it is interesting to note that though this is not a new philosophical viewpoint and is ancient by many standards,the dominant theologies of our time (the semetic triad) have for centuries deemed this outlook as heresy and punishable by death.
irrelevancy tends to do that to an archaic institution that has outlived its usefulness.

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Moving this video to enoch's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

A) These properties that are "just right" for life...are only just right for this TYPE of life.
B) So what if there were no life. Nothing to view the universe...would that mean that it wouldn't exist? Hahaha fellow philosophers it's the ol' "tree falling in the woods" thought experiment.

You can be spiritual sure, you can believe in a god, multiple gods, the spirit of the universe or the flying spaghetti monster. What you can't do is make the ridiculous assumption that these unprovable things you believe in can affect anything that actually exists in reality as we know it.

Rottenseed beat me to the punch on the type of life bit. Does thinking that our "type" of life is the only thing that can be "alive" make this presenter... "Lifeist"?

deliriousthunder

>> ^RadHazG:

You can be spiritual sure, you can believe in a god, multiple gods, the spirit of the universe or the flying spaghetti monster. What you can't do is make the ridiculous assumption that these unprovable things you believe in can affect anything that actually exists in reality as we know it.
Rottenseed beat me to the punch on the type of life bit. Does thinking that our "type" of life is the only thing that can be "alive" make this presenter... "Lifeist"?

Just to be the devils advocate, you can't have it both ways. There is no logic at all to telling someone that they can believe in a god who created the universe, then claim that it's ridiculous to assume that he/she/it would be able to affect anything with that universe.

If you grant the permission to believe in an all-powerful deity, it's actually a lot more ridiculous to believe that it could not affect the universe than it is to believe the opposite.

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