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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: LLCF who wrote (24074)6/27/2006 1:19:18 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) of 28931
 
I always wondered how the atheist "knew" there was no god,

It may not be possible to determine if there is another intelligence "out-there", but there are many things that can be known with certainty about the characteristics such a god.

For example: the combination of uncertainty and chaos that is inherent in the universe means that goals set into motion could not have the resolution necessary to actually determine the outcome of say, a single species on a particular planet.

A very general goal could be achieved, say for example if a pan-dimensional being triggered the big bang in his laboratory in the in the hope that an intelligence would evolve. This however is equivalent to a big-bang happening any other way too, so it's a pretty limited god.

The type of god that continually tinkers with probabilites, pushing the outcome of evolution or events to keep it on path to a goal is ultimately precluded by cause-and-effect paradoxes.

This really leaves one possibiliy for a detailed goal oriented god (and to get even a general goal in the face of chaos requires getting all the details right). This would be a deterministic universe, one with no uncertainty. Such a universe has it's future already set, much like a computer simulation. Our own intelligence would also be pre-determined, so one way of looking at it is that if a god with a plan exists, then we don't.

TP
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