If God exists, why did he create life? (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Friday, December 10, 2010, 06:34 (5096 days ago) @ dhw

Here, then, is the challenge: if you believe in the existence of God, and can disregard the ancient, man-made texts with their unsubstantiated stories of dialogues between God and humans, can you find anything in this scenario that contradicts your own experience and knowledge of the world?-In a word, Yes. (and I know you expected that from me)-You are only looking at it from a negative perspective, i.e. attributing any possible motive to vanity, desire for praise and worship, morbid enjoyment at our own wanton destruction of everything around us. -What about other possibly positive attributes? The simple joy of creation, for instance, the desire to share the gift of consciousness, which according to all accounts did not exist prior to the UI. Perhaps even to see if, given enough time, a simple consciousness could reach the potential that It possesses.-I also notice in your post that there seems to be a sense that free will is not an attribute that would have been granted, or else we would be able to choose not to be the dancing monkey's that your scenarios propose.