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Or astronomers who are now examining places 35 billion light years away and wondering why there’s not one sign of god yet

There's no sign of any scriptural god anywhere.
 

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I feel like this may be the most important thread on BF, or maybe it's the least important. I don't know, you tell me, or not.

But what actually is god, anyway? Is it a being, a denominational being, an energy? Is it everything? Or nothing? Shouldn't we at least agree on what 'god' actually is before we discuss it?

Who/what actually is god? It's a question that has been asked throughout the ages. Is there actually any meaning in existence? Any meaning at all? Do you ever ask yourself these questions?

DISCLAIMER: it's Saturday night and I'm quite intoxicated(and will probably regret this post).
 

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I feel like this may be the most important thread on BF, or maybe it's the least important. I don't know, you tell me, or not.

But what actually is god, anyway? Is it a being, a denominational being, an energy? Is it everything? Or nothing? Shouldn't we at least agree on what 'god' actually is before we discuss it?

Who/what actually is god? It's a question that has been asked throughout the ages. Is there actually any meaning in existence? Any meaning at all? Do you ever ask yourself these questions?

DISCLAIMER: it's Saturday night and I'm quite intoxicated(and will probably regret this post).

I think most of humanity has gone with God as the creator in some shape or form . The something from nothing guy.
 

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Agreed. My own perception is that 'god' is not an omnipotent being, though that is not to discount the possible existence of 'gods', per se.

I also do not buy in to creationism but understand why, given the belief in god as a creator, people would see it that way.
 

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Agreed. My own perception is that 'god' is not an omnipotent being, though that is not to discount the possible existence of 'gods', per se.

I also do not buy in to creationism but understand why, given the belief in god as a creator, people would see it that way.

Yes the fundamentalists have hijacked the term creation but most people who see god as the creator have no problem with evolution or what else we discover to be true. How things change or how things interact have no bearing on my concept of God.
 
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Or astronomers who are now examining places 35 billion light years away and wondering why there’s not one sign of god yet
I'm an agnostic, and certainly don't subscribe to any of the organised religions. But the suggestion that science has just about got it all figured out is beyond ludicrous. So we can see stuff that is really far away, that certainly answers all our questions...

We can't agree on basics like how many dimensions there are, or even how many universes there are. We have basically zero concept of the very large or the very small. But we "haven't seen god yet"... rightio.
 
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...........the suggestion that science has just about got it all figured out is beyond ludicrous. .............

Science doesn't claim this.
 
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Science doesn't claim this.
The claim that "we've seen 35 billion light years away but haven't found god" could only be interpreted as "well, we've basically seen it all". Far from true. Science is still in its infancy in many regards.

IMO atheism is unscientific. On the one hand, we know that creationism etc is bullshit. But on the other, we have no real idea yet of what reality is or of how many "realities" there are, so how can we rule out the metaphysical?
 
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The claim that "we've seen 35 billion light years away but haven't found god" could only be interpreted as "well, we've basically seen it all".

This is a single comment assigned from a single field of science, not science in total.

Science is still in its infancy in many regards.

How do you arrive at that conclusion?

IMO atheism is unscientific. On the one hand, we know that creationism etc is bullshit. But on the other, we have no real idea yet of what reality is or of how many "realities" there are, so how can we rule out the metaphysical?

1) Atheism is not necessarily "unscientific"
2) "Metaphysics" is basically philosophy. It's not synchronized with science until science ratifies some aspect of it and then it becomes science.
 
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The claim that "we've seen 35 billion light years away but haven't found god" could only be interpreted as "well, we've basically seen it all". Far from true. Science is still in its infancy in many regards.

IMO atheism is unscientific. On the one hand, we know that creationism etc is bullshit. But on the other, we have no real idea yet of what reality is or of how many "realities" there are, so how can we rule out the metaphysical?
Atheism is unscientific?!?!

i think that might be the most baffling comment I’ve read on the internet for some time.

Science deals in evidence alone. Given that there is no evidence of God, what other position would science adopt?
 
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This is a single comment assigned from a single field of science, not science in total.



How do you arrive at that conclusion?



1) Atheism is not necessarily "unscientific"
2) "Metaphysics" is basically philosophy. It's not synchronized with science until science ratifies some aspect of it.
That single comment is what I was responding to, I was not making the suggestion that the science field in general believe that their job is nearly done.

I consider science to be in its infancy due to many reasons. Instead of debating semantics, I can walk it back and just say "it still has a long way to go". Very basic questions remain unanswered by physics, some i've already mentioned. A couple of fields I'm interested in are nutrition and psychiatry. Experts in both fields hold significantly different views to what they did 10 years ago, and will no doubt have a completely different consensus in another 10 years.

I largely agree with your last paragraph. It can all depend on one's particular branch of atheism, and their definition of "scientific". I personally don't rule things in or out without decent evidence. While it can be difficult to prove a negative, I'm not yet satisfied that there is good reason to rule out some form of "god".
 

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I personally don't rule things in or out without decent evidence.

Yet you have ruled in the possibility of God with absolutely zero decent evidence.

I do wish people wouldn’t frame themselves as evidence-based when, in reality, they are happy to believe any madcap idea that fills a gap in their life.
 
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That single comment is what I was responding to, I was not making the suggestion that the science field in general believe that their job is nearly done.

Cool.

I consider science to be in its infancy due to many reasons.

Science is in continual motion. It can only be viewed as "infancy" in hindsight.

As for scriptural gods, there's very little if any scientific support for them.
 
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I feel like this may be the most important thread on BF, or maybe it's the least important. I don't know, you tell me, or not.

But what actually is god, anyway? Is it a being, a denominational being, an energy? Is it everything? Or nothing? Shouldn't we at least agree on what 'god' actually is before we discuss it?

Who/what actually is god? It's a question that has been asked throughout the ages. Is there actually any meaning in existence? Any meaning at all? Do you ever ask yourself these questions?

DISCLAIMER: it's Saturday night and I'm quite intoxicated(and will probably regret this post).
God is the logos; that which creates and speaks things into being, the conscious creative thought that generates ideas and in turn manifests the un-real into the real, whether physically or meta-physically.

Or something. :)


 
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As for scriptural gods, there's very little if any scientific support for them.
Totally agree. Which is why I consider it extremely unlikely that any of the major religions have it right, or are even close.
Yet you have ruled in the possibility of God with absolutely zero decent evidence.

I do wish people wouldn’t frame themselves as evidence-based when, in reality, they are happy to believe any madcap idea that fills a gap in their life.
Existence itself is unexplained by science. There is a hypothesis that existence is due to, or dependent upon, some higher being, or metaphysical energy or whatever. I don't believe such a theory, nor do I rule it out.
 
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While it can be difficult to prove a negative, I'm not yet satisfied that there is good reason to rule out some form of "god".

Apart from a lack of any evidence that an immortal, supernatural being / deity that is the perfect, omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient originator/creator and ruler of the universe actually exists is not a good reason?
 
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