On 12/13/2016 11:15 PM, 'scerir' via Everything List wrote:
Brent:
That depends on what you mean by "God". As I've pointed out at length,
language is defined by usage and usage says that "God" means an immortal
person with supernatural power who wants, and deserves, to be
worshipped. You want to hijack the word and justify it by referring to
a handful of philosophers who also wanted to hijack the word to gain
popular credence for their ideas which actually had nothing in common
with the meaning of "God" except that it was fundamental in some sense.
BTW, Freeman Dyson writes: 'My favorite version of the multiverse is a story
told by the philosopher Olaf Stapledon, who died in 1950. He taught philosophy
at the University of Liverpool. In 1937 he published a novel, Star Maker,
describing his vision of the multiverse. The book was marketed as science
fiction, but it has more to do with theology than with science. The narrator
has a vision in which he travels through space visiting alien civilizations
from the past and the future, his mind merging telepathically with some of
their inhabitants who join him on his journey. Finally, this “cosmical mind”
encounters the Star Maker, an “eternal and absolute spirit” who has created all
of these worlds in a succession of experiments. Each experiment is a universe,
and as each experiment fails he learns how to design the next experiment a
little better. His first experiment is a simple piece of music, a rhythmic
drumbeat exploring the texture of time. After that come many more works of art,
exploring the possibilities of space and time with gradually increasing
complexity.'
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2012/11/08/what-can-you-really-know/
"Any eternal God would be so bored after one eternity that It would do
Its best to commit suicide by creating an equally adept Opponent. Half
of the time the Opponent would succeed and the process would repeat.
It is impossible to know whether the current "God" is an even or odd
term in the series."
--- Roahn Wynar
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