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The first quality. "God has no beginning or end." Think people, the first law of thermodynamics. "Energy can be neither created nor destroyed. It can only change forms." So we can say that God is energy. Since God cannot be created nor destroyed, and neither can energy.
Originally posted by Nobama
reply to post by Chinesis
Is EVERYTHING explainable via "Science?" No? Why Not?
wut? your telling me that science can't explain everything??? really?
Darkness is light we cannot see. But it is light nonetheless.
Originally posted by Nobama
reply to post by Chinesis
I was using attack loosely, and why must someone have beliefs, maybe I just live my life as it should be, and not worry about being judged for what I have done during that time? Your pretty good at twisting around words to make yourself seem smart, when in reality your simply beating around the bush.
oh and as for your quote below lol dude 1+ for that one.
Darkness is light we cannot see. But it is light nonetheless.
Originally posted by Nobama
reply to post by Chinesis
btw we're on a forum where even though a word is spelled differently it is still the same word and thus doesn't have to be spelled the correct way lol. oh and explain Gods existence to me right now without using the bible.edit on 7-4-2011 by Nobama because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Nobama
reply to post by Chinesis
No it's the smarter hand to play, you have no proof there's a god yet you believe in a creator and yet im the narrow minded one? huh?
Originally posted by Thill
Originally posted by kaleshchand
The fourth quality. God is all knowing. Since the universe is "everything" it will mean that only the universe can know about everything, thus it is all knowing, and so is God.
Conclusion, the Universe is God, where universe is defined as "All matter and energy that there is". This definition is here for future proofing, so that it will automatically include multiverses, parallel universes, or any other universes that are discovered.
Nice post with interesting conclusion , but I have to disagree with conclusion 4. The universe is not all knowing , it only contains all the information , but in order for it to be all knowing it would have to be conscious, self aware and intelligent , which it is not . It is like saying that the computer chassis that holds all the components of your PC is super smart , because it has access to the internet . No it is not super smart , it only has access to the information but on its own it is just a piece of metal with wires
Now don't get me wrong , this is a very good definition and I would tend to agree that the universe (at least to us) is somewhat a God since it did create us and our life cycle is determined by its boundaries and laws (at least for now ) . But this is not the type of God that religion is trying to prove , which would be a conscious, self aware , super intelligent being that is consciously controlling the uni/multi verse.
Originally posted by marsend
Deities, help keep the masses amused, I have never understood why man is the only one that prostrates itself before a deity, one would think, that animals would have it hard wired to also do this. Maths is maths, religion is religion, neither are two useful for getting a cow out of the bog.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
Good remarks about #4, I was thinking the same thing before I read your post. That's probably the biggest problem.
Originally posted by Thill
Nice post with interesting conclusion , but I have to disagree with conclusion 4. The universe is not all knowing , it only contains all the information , but in order for it to be all knowing it would have to be conscious, self aware and intelligent , which it is not . It is like saying that the computer chassis that holds all the components of your PC is super smart , because it has access to the internet . No it is not super smart , it only has access to the information but on its own it is just a piece of metal with wires
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
But #1 is also a problem. Matter and energy aren't created or destroyed according to current physical laws, so that might apply up to about 13.6 billion years ago, but what about before that? Can you say the universe had no beginning? Was there no big bang? The scientific consensus is that there probably was a big bang, which is a beginning, is it not?
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
So if God has no beginning and our current universe began at the big bang then our current universe isn't God.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
2 and 3 I don't really have as big a problem with, though I think the term "power" or "powerful" needs to be examined in context and not in isolation. In my interpretation at least, the "power" of God would be a directed kind of power to purposefully make things happen according to the consciousness we discussed regarding item
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
4. While the universe seems to have nearly endless power, I'm not sure that it's necessarily like the power that God is claimed to have used to part the red sea, is it?
Originally posted by traditionaldrummer
Originally posted by IAMIAM
Why rethink it?
Because it doesn't rule out energy sources that are directly attributable to human or natural sources.
Also, pretending the the universe and its functions are god does not make the universe and its functions god.
Originally posted by traditionaldrummer
Originally posted by kaleshchand
Definition of God
Lets face it, we cant prove/disprove something that has an unlimited number of definitions. So for this thread God will be defined by "generally accepted" qualities of God. So what are the qualities of God?
- God has no beginning or end. (i.e. God was never "born" and can never die)
- God is everywhere.
- God is all powerful.
- God is all knowing.
What exactly validates these qualities of the alleged "god"? How do you know these qualities fit the definition of a god and are not, say, just some arbitrary qualities you made up?
Could I not do the same thing? I could, for example, define god as a cylinder of wood with graphite at its center. Then I could look for something fitting this definition, say... a pencil, and simply call it god.