From: Kharin (kharin@kharin.com)
Date: Thu Oct 16 2003 - 08:54:20 MDT
"who says that the existance of god has to be attached to some reasonable consequence? ... that is only true if god cares to interfere with what is already going on. "
Possibly. Though such conceptions of god tend to be rather rare for the simple reason that the god they depict is at best an irrelevance. In practice, modus tollens is applicable to most conceptions of god; for example, consider how the theory of natural selection had 'reasonable consequences' for the Biblical account of creation. That did not invalidate the existence of god but it did invalidate a particular conception of god.
" What if god is merely primitive man's expression of a possible universal law that makes cooperative distributed systems more powerful than centralised ones? In other words...God is merely Love anthropomorphised?"
There are those who have made arguments similar to that; Tillich and Ehrlich especially if I recall correctly. That said, such arguments tend not be too convincing; people do not seem especially enthused by the prospect of a god that has only metaphorical value.
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