\"God is organized energy\" (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by dhw, Thursday, November 25, 2010, 08:55 (5111 days ago)

I am breaking away from the "Darwinist" thread, which I think has now become too diffuse.-DAVID (responding to BBella): GOD is energy, just as you suppose, and since everything is energy, God is everywhere. [...] God is organized energy.-BBella has described it as the "force" that holds everything together, but I seem to remember her also calling it energy in a former post. I don't think anyone would dispute that energy is everywhere, or even that there is a "force" that holds things together. An atheist would probably call it the laws of Nature (George, where are you?) and would have no trouble with the concept of self-organizing energy. The disagreements begin the moment anyone tries to impose attributes on that energy or force. Claims that it is conscious of itself and of us, that it deliberately and specifically set out to create humans, that it even loves humans ... that's where we all go in different directions. But without such claims and such attributes, the energy or force might just as well be called X or Gibberish or shdhrhast7SW9shhf, because it means absolutely nothing.