> On 15 Jun 2021, at 00:12, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 6/14/2021 2:17 PM, John Clark wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 11:05 AM <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> > New religions I hold we do not need. >> >> I hold we don't need the old religions either. >> >> > Skeptic Michael Shermer paraphrasing Arthur C. Clarke, said: A >> > sufficiently advanced alien intelligence is indistinguishable from God." >> >> Not the Christian God I hope! I love the quote by biologist Richard Dockins >> from his terrific book "The God Delusion". >> >> “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in >> all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving >> control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, >> homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, >> megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.” > > Any relation to the biologist Richard Dawkins? > > The God of the New Testament isn't any better. Just read revelations.
That’s reason to come back to the God of Plato: which is truth with the understanding that anyone claiming to know it in a public way is a con artist. Today we know that if Mechanism is true (Descartes, Darwin, Turing) then the God which is the less plausible is a physical universe. The physical reality admits a simpler explanation with a much weaker ontological assumption (arithmetic). Bruno > > Brent > > -- > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/277e9caf-5e61-2132-8382-73ae73b0bdbd%40verizon.net > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/277e9caf-5e61-2132-8382-73ae73b0bdbd%40verizon.net?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/0B4B59D2-DDDE-4122-AAF5-8AC66687BBC7%40ulb.ac.be.
