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You keep using the term "theory of god", but no theory is presented.
The point is it seems to me that it should be possible to create a scientific theory/conjecture of God, not that any of you need to be necessarily interested in it. For example, if I'm not mistaken, there's no entity called "evolution" that we can test directly. We create a model that fits the theory, make predictions from the model, and test whether the predictions pan out; that they do quite nicely in the case of evolution of course.So a common religious position is that the evidence of God is in his exacting design of the universe. So, for example, one might say that a scientific discussion on this might take the form of considering the various forms and occurrences that this design takes throughout the universe. I'm not saying any of you should have some sort of moral responsibility to build such a theory or take part in such discussions, rather I only mean to flesh out for myself and whoever else might be interested in the subject matter the means to approach a theory of God in context to established science.
Tangentially, I saw a car with a bumper-sticker the other day that read; "Dog is my co-pilot."
First though, one question Why is it that the whole concept of God is a fundamentally irrational idea?Definition of God. A conscious awareness that chose to set in motion the creation of everything we call reality.
I thought this thread must have been deleted as there was nothing in the original subforum saying it had been moved - I only found it here because I looked in on the off chance that it had been mentioned, but here it is.
Assuming we do come up with a theory, why are you so insistent that we use the word "god" to describe it?
Quote from: Geezer on 25/01/2012 17:45:38Tangentially, I saw a car with a bumper-sticker the other day that read; "Dog is my co-pilot."Classy Geezer, classy. The age of enlightenment is truly upon us.
Although discussions such as this are interesting, they seldom achieve much...
It might be hard to believe, but atheists and agnostics don't have a monopoly on finding religious debates to be largely a waste of time. It is one of those phenomena where everyone who enters the intellectual pool does so with their views finalized before hand.
../Was it created by a god, several gods, an infinite number of gods, a gigantic mangleworzel, or an infinite number of gigantic mangleworzels, or something else? I do not know, and I'm sure any scientist, regardless of your categorization, will jump right on it just as soon as somebody coughs up an experiment that they can test..../