More about how evolution works: multicellularity (Evolution)

by David Turell , Saturday, November 05, 2016, 14:45 (2938 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: The moment we start to speculate about God’s purpose, we are bound to humanize him! God creating life in order to produce humans so that he can have direct relations with us is humanizing him. God hiding himself in order to test our faith is humanizing him. What is the point of prayer if you are praying to something that has no attributes and with which we have no common ground, as you state below?

I start off by accepting Adler's admonition: God is a person like no other person. He cannot be conceived of in any human terms. We do not know if he has emotions like ours. Of course He may have purposes, if He is a conscious being. Being concealed may or may not be a test of faith. That is our human conclusion, which may be wrong about his intent. You've forgotten we have consciousness also. We can relate: He is concealed but that dies not mean consciously disconnected.

dhw: Please tell me which of the mainstream religions advocates a God without any human attributes.

Of course religions give Him human attributes. I don't follow religion.

DAVID: Again, common ground with God does not exist! That was explained to Abraham. I am in His image, as you know I believe, through consciousness only.

Consciousness without attributes may as well not be there. It is you who constantly bring up the subject of God’s purpose, but why talk about purpose at all, since purposefulness is a human attribute?

As above, God, a special person, can have purpose. We can know Him only through His works! His motives are a guess. His emotions are a guess. His desires are a guess. BUT, only a planning mind could have created this universe and living beings who are capable of holding this discussion.