It was Dawkins who said that the universe may very well contain god-like intelligences. Or to misquote A C Clarke (any relation?) "any sufficiently advanced ET is indistinguishable from God." If one of these happened to start things up in our region of space time, and you got an interview with this imaginary dude/ai/plasma cluster, what would you ask? Bet your interview might be the most viewed interview show anywhere.
-----Original Message----- From: John Clark <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Jan 15, 2015 2:47 pm Subject: Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics? On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > In many religion, God has no name And yet somehow that doesn't prevent them from yammering on and on and on about Mr. Noname. > I think that atheists are more in love with the word God, and even with some > definition, than the theologian, who are used to compare different conception > of God. Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has said that "theology is not a field of inquiry, it is little more than erudite noisemaking". Cosmologist Lawrence Krauss also has something interesting to say about theologians and theology: "In regards to theology not being a real subject, I put this challenge out to all theologians. Name me one piece of knowledge theology has contributed to human society in the last 500 years. When I speak to theologians, they always seem to answer “well, what do you mean by knowledge?”, but when I talk to chemists, physicists and medical doctors, they give me concrete facts straight away not this epistemological stuff." John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
