If a god existed.
22 Feb '12 20:13If a god existed, it would view the universe at large perhaps as its special domain, but IMHO this god would never need to force adulation, make rules, commandments, or any of the other obviously man made attributes we give to this god.
This god would oversee intelligent life forms on millions of planets in the universe and would not consider one superior to another, it could at any time it so chose, introduce us to any one or all of the rest. It would know which ones of these possible space faring races would be deadly to us and keep them apart from us if it was interested in seeing how we develop in isolation from other space faring races.
I can even see this god blasting the Earth a few times to guide evolution to favor the creation of humans but in no way would this god look like us since in my view there would be millions of other intelligent races in our universe this god would be overseeing.
To think this god would raise us as the pinnacle of creation is IMHO an assumption that is arrogant in the extreme, for instance, if my view is correct and there are in the sum total of our universe, millions of other intelligent species, then there would naturally be a spectrum of intelligence. Perhaps we are close to the top, perhaps we are close to the bottom of that universal intelligence scale, perhaps each race would have to have its intelligence defined for that race only.
However we fit on that scale, this god could be seen in the light of a curator of a zoo or museum, like all the animals in the zoo, the curator may have favorites and such but it would never say, THIS ONE is the number one life form in my view, maybe there would be some approaching godhood themselves, but clearly we are not by any stretch of the imagination approaching godhood and that includes all the Hindu and Buddhist monks contemplating on the top of mountains and the shaman of the village or the Pope. We are at our level which includes deception, war, murder, rape, as well as incomprehensible acts of kindness and empathy, a very mixed bag.
So even on our own level we have levels so such a god as I envision would therefore be more likely to look on some higher developed individuals as obviously spiritually superior but that would not engender this god to bring that person up to something like the godly level we assume such a god would have.
We would be more like one more experiment that will run its course, come what may, with no intervention unless it deems us worthy of revival from some overwhelming natural disaster, like a comet crashing into Earth. If that just left one percent alive to rebuild, then this god would not save the rest, but allow nature to take its course and to allow evolution to either run us to extinction or for us to be one link to a life form on Earth on a somewhat higher plane.
Perhaps this next level of humans on Earth won't be so bloodthirsty or blindly follow what are clearly man made religions but rely more on their own reasoning power unfettered by the blindness of faith and entertain their flights of creative fancy and curiosity about the universe around us.
That could yet be the fate of humans, all with no intervention of this god, whom we would have no need of worshiping, since to be worshiped or not to be worshiped would have exactly the same consequences, no intervention in human affairs unless this god had decided the planet itself was the object to keep in the goldilocks zone of habitability and it might intervene if we would be so stupid as to screw up the planet so bad the bio diversity would be destroyed, maybe then this god would intervene, but not for humanities sake, but for the sake of the planet.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
This god would oversee intelligent life forms on millions of planets in the universe and would not consider one superior to another, it could at any time it so chose, introduce us to any one or all of the rest. It would know which ones of these possible space faring races would be deadly to us and keep them apart from us if it was interested in seeing how we develop in isolation from other space faring races.
I can even see this god blasting the Earth a few times to guide evolution to favor the creation of humans but in no way would this god look like us since in my view there would be millions of other intelligent races in our universe this god would be overseeing.
To think this god would raise us as the pinnacle of creation is IMHO an assumption that is arrogant in the extreme, for instance, if my view is correct and there are in the sum total of our universe, millions of other intelligent species, then there would naturally be a spectrum of intelligence. Perhaps we are close to the top, perhaps we are close to the bottom of that universal intelligence scale, perhaps each race would have to have its intelligence defined for that race only.
However we fit on that scale, this god could be seen in the light of a curator of a zoo or museum, like all the animals in the zoo, the curator may have favorites and such but it would never say, THIS ONE is the number one life form in my view, maybe there would be some approaching godhood themselves, but clearly we are not by any stretch of the imagination approaching godhood and that includes all the Hindu and Buddhist monks contemplating on the top of mountains and the shaman of the village or the Pope. We are at our level which includes deception, war, murder, rape, as well as incomprehensible acts of kindness and empathy, a very mixed bag.
So even on our own level we have levels so such a god as I envision would therefore be more likely to look on some higher developed individuals as obviously spiritually superior but that would not engender this god to bring that person up to something like the godly level we assume such a god would have.
We would be more like one more experiment that will run its course, come what may, with no intervention unless it deems us worthy of revival from some overwhelming natural disaster, like a comet crashing into Earth. If that just left one percent alive to rebuild, then this god would not save the rest, but allow nature to take its course and to allow evolution to either run us to extinction or for us to be one link to a life form on Earth on a somewhat higher plane.
Perhaps this next level of humans on Earth won't be so bloodthirsty or blindly follow what are clearly man made religions but rely more on their own reasoning power unfettered by the blindness of faith and entertain their flights of creative fancy and curiosity about the universe around us.
That could yet be the fate of humans, all with no intervention of this god, whom we would have no need of worshiping, since to be worshiped or not to be worshiped would have exactly the same consequences, no intervention in human affairs unless this god had decided the planet itself was the object to keep in the goldilocks zone of habitability and it might intervene if we would be so stupid as to screw up the planet so bad the bio diversity would be destroyed, maybe then this god would intervene, but not for humanities sake, but for the sake of the planet.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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