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- From: livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Why God is Hiding
- Keywords: Why God is Hiding
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 03:48:55 GMT
- References: <C1Dzv5.Frs@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <C1Dzv5.Frs@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, skillian@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Seth James Killian) writes:
- >
- > [assume God exists, etc] Time passes, and the
- > creator ceases frequent and obvious interaction with his creations.
- > Those who had direct interaction with the creator die, and can leave
- > only a book as a legacy to future generations.
-
- None of what yuo write is impossible, but I found that this part
- caused me a problem. To believe this, we have to imagine a God
- who hangs around - twiddling his thumbs? - for fifteen or so
- billion years - talk about yer Gilligan's Island - while humankind
- first evolves, and finally develops thought and consciousness,
- and then, for no apparent good reason, God gets bored and wanders
- away three thousand years ago, at the precise moment when things
- start to get really interesting.
-
- Up to the point when human society developed, the Universe ran
- itself in response to natural law, and so presumably your God
- could more or less tell what came next. Then once human
- society emerged, human brainpower became a new force of nature,
- because for the first time - apparently - a species evolved
- which was capable of not merely living in the Universe, but
- of reshaping the Universe to suit itself. Now if I were God,
- I don't think I would choose this precise moment in time to
- wander off. Who knows what these creatures are going to do?
-
- There's another problem. Are we the only intelligent race
- to receive a book? Does God get bored with all intelligent
- races? All at the same time? One by one? I wonder what
- some of the other books say? We'd better hope that they
- all say that flightless bipeds are unclean, and not to be eaten.
-
- jon.
-