I have always assumed that all cultures on Earth are referring to the same God, even if they don't think it.
Reading this, my mind draws the same conclusion. If there is a God/creator that could create our world, it doesn't make sense that He has a finite amount of creative power. It seems that this is a different plane where our idea of limits do not apply. Surely one who could create all this has no limits.
Thank you for your comment. It is hard for me to believe in anything that has unlimited powers. Taking it one step further, I think creation would be unlikely if the creator has unlimited powers. Why bother with anything if you have unlimited powers?
It's hard for me to believe anything could create a whole world from thin-air as well. I like that we'll never know for sure. And for the second part, why do you think having unlimited powers makes things not worthwhile to do? I think the clockmaker analogy you spoke to is most likely. God was infinitely powerful and wound up this ball of potential energy and it simply ran rampant. Some sort of self-creating system.
It is impossible for me to understand what limits may apply to a God. But I believe there would have to be some. I am approaching it from the point of view of motivation. If a God has no limitations I think it would also have no motivation to create. A clockmaker God, for example, may be limited by a requirement of internal consistency to apply to the universe it creates. And the one of the motivations could be aesthetic.
This was an interesting summary on the speculations about something mankind has wondered forever... I said speculations because none can be classified even as hypothesis let alone any verification! Of course we have limits to our understanding of the universe that we cannot see as a whole and our science knowledge may yet be limited to grasp even the visible portion of it of immense size. Multiverse theories (a bit more than speculations at the moment) conclude that there might be other universes beyond every black hole but information conserved in one universe cannot cross the that boundary to the other side. If there is(are) experimenting being(s) on the other side of the event horizon they won't be able to review the results later on. Even if they could have the possibility to sort through so many alternate worlds they would be overly disappointed with their creation here on earth, overwhelmed by one stupid species ruining their only available livable planet. In any case gods -philosophical creations of humankind- of any kind did not help to make them even a bit more intelligent whether they exist or not!
Thank you for your comment. I think the present universe is already sufficiently complex without bringing multiverse into the picture. Observations indicate that there are probably an enormous number of inhabitable planets. The Earth is not the only one (although it is the only one for us).
The estimated number of inhabitable planets is beyond hypothesis stage because we have already started discovering them.
The number of intelligent species can be estimated rather rigorously (as I did) if we accept that the humans are not the only independent intellligent species on the Earth.
I have always assumed that all cultures on Earth are referring to the same God, even if they don't think it.
Reading this, my mind draws the same conclusion. If there is a God/creator that could create our world, it doesn't make sense that He has a finite amount of creative power. It seems that this is a different plane where our idea of limits do not apply. Surely one who could create all this has no limits.
Thank you for your comment. It is hard for me to believe in anything that has unlimited powers. Taking it one step further, I think creation would be unlikely if the creator has unlimited powers. Why bother with anything if you have unlimited powers?
It's hard for me to believe anything could create a whole world from thin-air as well. I like that we'll never know for sure. And for the second part, why do you think having unlimited powers makes things not worthwhile to do? I think the clockmaker analogy you spoke to is most likely. God was infinitely powerful and wound up this ball of potential energy and it simply ran rampant. Some sort of self-creating system.
It is impossible for me to understand what limits may apply to a God. But I believe there would have to be some. I am approaching it from the point of view of motivation. If a God has no limitations I think it would also have no motivation to create. A clockmaker God, for example, may be limited by a requirement of internal consistency to apply to the universe it creates. And the one of the motivations could be aesthetic.
This was an interesting summary on the speculations about something mankind has wondered forever... I said speculations because none can be classified even as hypothesis let alone any verification! Of course we have limits to our understanding of the universe that we cannot see as a whole and our science knowledge may yet be limited to grasp even the visible portion of it of immense size. Multiverse theories (a bit more than speculations at the moment) conclude that there might be other universes beyond every black hole but information conserved in one universe cannot cross the that boundary to the other side. If there is(are) experimenting being(s) on the other side of the event horizon they won't be able to review the results later on. Even if they could have the possibility to sort through so many alternate worlds they would be overly disappointed with their creation here on earth, overwhelmed by one stupid species ruining their only available livable planet. In any case gods -philosophical creations of humankind- of any kind did not help to make them even a bit more intelligent whether they exist or not!
Thank you for your comment. I think the present universe is already sufficiently complex without bringing multiverse into the picture. Observations indicate that there are probably an enormous number of inhabitable planets. The Earth is not the only one (although it is the only one for us).
The estimated number of inhabitable planets is beyond hypothesis stage because we have already started discovering them.
The number of intelligent species can be estimated rather rigorously (as I did) if we accept that the humans are not the only independent intellligent species on the Earth.