Natural Teleology: More Thomas Nagel (The limitations of science)

by David Turell , Friday, February 08, 2013, 15:41 (4307 days ago) @ dhw

dhw:I clearly have more respect for anthropomorphic gods than you do. That is because I cannot imagine a self-aware God creating minds totally different from his own.- I think I have discovered one of our 'misunderstanding' differences. I think my mind is a part of the universal intelligence (God) and as such is exactly the same as His. I am self-aware and so is HE. Only much smaller in capacity and with less intellectual power. But I am similar to concepts of God in that I can know the past but not the future. This is the background of why we have evolution. God has/had goals in mind and He had to use evolution to get there. We cannot truly know His personality which was fixed at His beginning. It just IS. We, on the other hand, develop a personality based on inheritance, life experiences, etc. we therefore all differ and have different expectations. My assumption is there never was nothing, an absolute void. Something cannot appear from a true void of nothingness. God is a necessary being, from the beginning, whenever that was. I am made in the image of God in my brain's consciousness. Here the Bible is right on.