On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 18:44 -0500, tedd wrote: > At 3:58 PM -0500 2/22/08, Robert Cummings wrote: > >On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 14:49 -0600, Greg Donald wrote: > >> On 2/22/08, Daniel Brown <parasane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > So help me God > >> > >> Speaking of imaginary things, check out this new site I built few > >>weeks back: > >> > >> http://rewriteproject.com/ > >> > >> I do believe I am the first person to ever "tag cloud" a bible :) > > > >That's pretty funny... but why rewrite a great fantasy? > > Not meaning to start a religious debate or what's real and what isn't > with regard to the Bible, but the other day I was thinking about > proof for God's existence. > > Shouldn't the reason why we ask "if" be sufficient proof that "it is"? I'm sorry, but the concept of God himself evaluates to the same infinite regression as the concept of existence. The question should be "What is existence?", not "Is there a God?". For surely if a God exists, then from whence does it exist. > Take the other side of that coin -- if God didn't exist, would we be > asking? We would still be asking from whence do we exist. God is merely a hocus pocus answer to the question. Why delve when you can wave your hands in the air and say "God". > I imagine there are a great number of things that don't exist > that we never mention -- so why this one? It is in our nature. We see the things that we create and naturally in our ignorance many assume that we ourselves must have been created. This may be true, but it still begs the question of the existence of our creator. Let's look at it this way... if we create Artificial Intelligence (aside: remember the discussion about randomness... are we Artificial Intelligence or somehow more real? >:), but we never allowed it to know of us directly... would we be it's God? Certainly it would the same in all comparative understandings for which we hold our concept of God. As such, would we look no further and say that there can be no God but we? Do we consider higher up the chain and ask if we are Gods to our AI, is our concept of God held servant to another higher God (and so on up the regression)? Or do we just skip the whole idea of God and dig at the real question... existence (which incidentally parallels the problems of God with respect to the root of existence). > All rhetorical comments -- no need to reply. We all have different > beliefs -- whatever gets you through. > > Just offered as food for thought. Uhuh... you'd like it if nobody had a comment wouldn't you!? ;) Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
