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• Who created God?

  Mon Aug 9, 2010
  • Thanks mogmich,

• Who created God?

  Mon Aug 9, 2010
  • Mogmich, I think that's it, it's all in how we describe god. I am an atheist by most common definitions of the word god, but perhaps not by yours. There are several definitions of "god" out there that I wouldn't necessarily disagree with though.

• Who created God?

  Mon Aug 9, 2010
  • If we posit that god exists outside of our physical reality and is thus governed by different physical laws, then we still need to explain what physical organs conforming to our known laws god employs to sense and manipulate things in our universe... which brings god back to biology.

• Who created God?

  Mon Aug 9, 2010
  • Yes, the attitude that science conflicts with god ideas is extremely common in the US, but not for the right reasons. The most common reason among non-scientists is the one you stated, that evolution conflicts with a literalistic interpretation of the Genesis accounts of the Bible.

• Who created God?

  Mon Aug 9, 2010
  • God does not in itself contradict science… BUT, If our thoughts are identical with physical processes in the brain, then our scientific understanding of physical reality is severely flawed.

• Who created God?

  Mon Aug 9, 2010
  • Thanks mogmich, ...that doesn't mean that you cannot find reason to believe in God.

• Who created God?

  Mon Aug 9, 2010
  • Mogmich, Of course God is not biological - does anybody believe that? Is there any reason to think god is in any way like what people believe? If so, is that because god conforms to human belief and is thus a human creation,

• Who created God?

  Mon Aug 9, 2010
  • Adam Kemp, thanks for your observations. I agree a neural network would be required to achieve anything like real-time integration from the required peripheral inputs, and I rather doubt we'll mimic the speed or size of a human brain in my lifetime.

• Who created God?

  Mon Aug 9, 2010
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• Who created God?

  Mon Aug 9, 2010
  • Side questions... Adam Kemp, have you given any thought to engineering an aware AI? Knowing your expertise with machine logic and familiarity with human consciousness, I wonder some if you'd disagree with a couple conclusions...