I got to "this brings us to God" and saw the dinosaur... and burst out laughing.
Back when I was a kid (umm... I must have been 20; I was still at university) I was chatting with a friend who was an evangelical. I confronted him; "why doesn't God make himself known" and got a standard answer about "getting to know God". My response was "Knowing God exists doesn't mean we know the _nature_ of God; we can stop wasting time about whether God does or does not exist and actually get to _know_ God better".
There is no scenario I can think of where God failing to prove its existence is a good thing. Whether it's "playing tricks" or "obfuscation" we end up in the same place.
So I have to conclude, as you have, that if God exists then it must be a dick.
Actually, on further reflection, I'd never really considered it that much at all. I heard about it, had an instant reaction of "that's stupid," and never really thought about the idea again.
I grew up Mormon, and the general consensus is that the earth could be millions of years old because who knows how long it took god to create the earth. Never heard the trickster theory in the LDS dogma.
Also grew up being told I'd better get used to the idea of polygamy - which brings us back to why I started following Franklin's writing.
Actually, there is an alternative theory that takes the statement "And the Earth was without form, and void" to imply that the Earth already existed before this, and could have had almost anything occur there, including the entire history of the dinosaurs, for example. This doesn't contradict 'In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth' because any amount of time could have occurred between these events.
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Back when I was a kid (umm... I must have been 20; I was still at university) I was chatting with a friend who was an evangelical. I confronted him; "why doesn't God make himself known" and got a standard answer about "getting to know God". My response was "Knowing God exists doesn't mean we know the _nature_ of God; we can stop wasting time about whether God does or does not exist and actually get to _know_ God better".
There is no scenario I can think of where God failing to prove its existence is a good thing. Whether it's "playing tricks" or "obfuscation" we end up in the same place.
So I have to conclude, as you have, that if God exists then it must be a dick.
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Also grew up being told I'd better get used to the idea of polygamy - which brings us back to why I started following Franklin's writing.
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