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...and since He doesn't exist, we'd better build him.
...and since He doesnt exist, we'd better stop anyone from building Him.
...and Eliezer is His prophet.
...and by reaching into the past to create Himself He has made Himself the only consistent causal loop that goes through the Singularity. Resistance is futile.
...and He has a Principal-Agent problem.
wait obviously God exists, why else does mathematics have predictive power in terms of describing physics at all?
from a bayesian priors standpoint it is so inexplicable that the SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1) describes all matter and that Einstein’s curvature describes gravitational lensing and that string theory relates both
all good physicists are religious in some way, there’s no other plausible explanation except for a mind that blessed us with the capacity to understand the universe we live in, that was constructed by the mind
you’re also made of the same Standard Model (protons, quarks, gluons, neutrons, electrons).
“building god” brother the galaxies have STRUCTURE and it’s MATHEMATICAL
god is the greatest
wait obviously God exists, why else does mathematics have predictive power in terms of describing physics at all?
To expostulate "what else could it possibly be?" is not so much an argument as an indication that you have not actually asked the question.
What is this "God" that you are postulating, that we should bow down to and worship him, and perform the prescriptions, proscriptions, rituals and ceremonies of this or that tradition? For that is what is generally meant by "God", and you have chosen to use the word without elaboration. Your saying "god is the greatest" hints that you come from the tradition of Islam.
Have you discovered The Sequences yet?
i’m postulating a God who created the universe, rationally the God would’ve created the universe with a purpose (this is what Islam is), and tells us what right and wrong are.
so if God exists you have to ask the question, why did God create us. the Quran is his word (why would a God be silent after creation? doesn’t make much sense (especially with the problem of suffering in the world
God says the world is a test for doing good and avoiding evil and gives us guidelines and lessons for what we should do in our lives.
in the sense that there are other “scriptures” out there, no other scripture actually describes creation while at the exclusion of any other “deity” except for God the creator.
otherwise morality is fundamentally subjective and doesn’t exist
for instance, genocides in the world are explicitly prohibited in the Quran, and there are rules for warfare.
is murder wrong? in some cases it’s a subjective argument (utilitarians would argue it is ok, if it saves more people. God forbids murder against innocent people for any reason.)
i’m postulating a God who created the universe, rationally the God would’ve created the universe with a purpose (this is what Islam is), and tells us what right and wrong are.
so if God exists you have to ask the question, why did God create us. the Quran is his word (why would a God be silent after creation? doesn’t make much sense (especially with the problem of suffering in the world
The Christians say likewise. They say that by reason we prove there must be a God, and when we look in the world for signs of Him we find Him in the Biblical history and in the person of Jesus. The Jews say likewise, but leave out Jesus; the Moslems recognise Jesus only as a prophet and add a further, final prophet of their own. And the Buddhists, and the Hindus, and the ancient Greeks and Romans, and others, have their own accounts of what drives the natural world; as do the atheists back to Democritus, who find no need of the hypothesis.
- god doesn’t need a son or a blood sacrifice of his supposed son, he‘d logically just forgive you outright
- the hindus and greeks postulate multiple gods, which then leads to the question of who created them?
- the only explanation that makes sense is one God who created everything and manages everything, who wouldn’t need to have created other inferior gods to worship instead of him. this is Islam
conscience alone is not something that is infallible, it’s not something that leads to ideal outcomes on their own
Look around at the world. Nothing has led to ideal outcomes. Ideal outcomes are not in evidence.