More Denton: A new book (Introduction)

by BBella , Saturday, March 05, 2016, 19:33 (3185 days ago) @ David Turell


> > dhw; Your God is becoming more and more diffuse. How about this, then, for a “version of God”: ALL THAT IS, consisting of energy and matter, some of which is organic and conscious, and some of which is inorganic and probably without consciousness. Then we really needn't bother about where it all came from, or how and when consciousness arose. After all, if God just is (no known source), then ALL THAT IS just is. But maybe, on second thoughts, we should ditch the word “God”, because so many people associate that with a single, conscious, eternal being which deliberately created ALL THAT IS.
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> At least you definitely accept that something is eternal and has consciousness. Something with consciousness could then plan our reality, design not chance. - Questions to ponder: - If there is ONE Conscious being that planned and created All That Is, would that suggest that the ONE being came before All That Is and would had to have created All That Is from no-thing? Is that even probable/possible? - If energy, matter and consciousness all arrived at the same time, or always existed together, but at some point consciousness, with or without bodies, began to intelligently plan and create life as we know from what was available at the time - would said creators deserve/demand worship from the created? After all, what was created was made from already available stuff. And why would said creators not continue to hang around to guide the created? Why the great mystery hanging over the created beings head? - If there is ONE conscious, intelligent being that planned and created All That Is, as David proposes, why would this ONE intelligent being, who could create such wondrous life from nothing (or from available material), allow the horrors of life as we know it? - If YOU were the ONE creator of life as we know it and had all the power to create, how would YOU have done, or would do it differently, to bring about a different outcome? - One last ponder (for now): If the creator of life as we know it used available material to create, that would have to mean that consciousness too was/is a part of that available material. If we are made from the same stuff as our creator, what makes us different than our creator?