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Originally Posted by cannabis  Simply because God is perfect, and we are not. |
I'm suggesting that it is not true. Go with me on this one; suspension of disbelief.
What if that and all the bible stuff is simply propaganda; influenced be a God much weaker than he perceives himself; akin to the opulent monarchies and empires propagating their "divinity".
He is vain and egotistical, he wants us to worship him after all. He is a control freak and likes to control facets of our lives (the sabbath, ten commandments, etc.). It makes sense if you've read the bible
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If we were proportional to Gods competence that would mean God is not perfect because we are not ourselves. |
I follow you up until that point. We are ourselves.
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God can create existence and harbor life, we can only breed within our own, under certain limitations.
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Well first off, who KNOWS that god isn't under any limitations? Looking at the universe from a scientific standpoint; God *is* limited.
But also, who says we cant harbor life and create existence? A man and a woman creating a child seems like a pretty extraordinary production of life. Even yet science can replicate other lifeforms from a wisp of genetic and reproduction material.
And who is to argue that AI is impossible? I still have yet to fully understand the logistics of it, but I understand it's potential. We may very well create genuine life from artificial electrical impulses.
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Originally Posted by stneod Why should the creation of an equal being (as that is my take on the matter) be a mistake to god. |
It only would be in retrospect if it was true.
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Originally Posted by dynasty i think we'll only be stronger than god like those people in the hitch hiker's guide: when we are capable of completely destroying planets and also having the ability to manufacture new ones. |
I don't see why. Besides, if you ask me, we may very well be capable of this. We just choose not to. It may be within our technological grasp. We are capable of destroying our planet and equally perspectively capable of terraforming mars.
I admittedly have reading Hitchhiker's Guide, so I'm not fully sure what you're talking about.
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Originally Posted by cannabis if you believe in 'God' you believe that he is virtually incapable of making a mistake like that |
Says who? There are very obviously no barriers or confinements in the realm of "belief"