Tuesday, November 29, 2005

 

A skeptic's view of God

Is God is nothing more than an attempt to explain order and good fortune by those who do not understand the mathematics of chance, the principles of self-organizing systems, or the psychology of the human mind? For as long as pollsters have been asking the question, roughly 90% of Americans have been claiming to believe in God, and a sizable majority believes that God takes a personal interest in their lives and intervenes to help them. When President Bush said, "God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did," most Americans were not alarmed to learn that their leader was receiving orders that no one else could hear. America is an unusually religious nation, but even in the world's least religious nations the majority of people claim to believe in God.

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http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/gilbert05/gilbert05_index.html

Comments:
God is everything we do not know.

People know different things.

We can compare people's belief in God to their capacity for discernment or sensitivity.

Imagine that our range of perceptions could be bundled up and called a microspcope. Its only natural that people who got their microsopes in a hobby kit are going to have different conceptualizations of God than those with electron tunnelling microscopes.

Personally, I think all Bush has are weak reading glasses . . .
 
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