Saturday, July 31, 2010

A problem for apologists and their description of "God".

"God" is said to be the creator of ALL things and to be spaceless, timeless and immaterial yet is said to exist "eternally". This alone seems quite absurd and logically impossible. We cannot, reasonably, even speak of "his" existence "prior" to the big bang, or "Creation", because there was no time. This calls into question the claim that "he" is "eternal" as it is relative to time necessarily. If time is finite, as claimed by the defenders of the faith, then nothing can be eternal and even making such a statement is little more than a tautology as "time is finite" and "nothing is eternal" are basically stating the same proposition. This would mean that without the universe (or all things said to be "created") this immaterial being, "God", exists, or existed, at no place and at no time. Could there be a more clear and concise way to state that there was nothing? This means that without the existence of the universe "God" has nothing on which to reflect or contemplate and no time in which to do so. This means that "he" has no time in which to will to action nor any time or place in which an action can be performed. It would defy logic to even contemplate what reasons "he" might have had for creating anything or how and/or why "he" had a desire to do so. For "God" there was nothing that was necessary, nothing to value and no reason to value anything. It is what we value, as Humans, and/or what is necessary for our health, welfare and quality of life that leads us to have desire. What is necessary to maintain our life and what we value depend necessarily on the Human condition and these things make us who we are in nature/character. There would be no reason for "God" to have any such character or "nature". It It seems to me, based on such arguments, that "God" is nothing more than a sophisticated Human abstraction projected, quite literally, onto naught or into the void.

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