Reply #44: I am not sure I understand what god-like means

[The Straight Story]

To ants I am god like, but what does god and god like break down to in our culture/understanding.

And I don't discount your belief, myself I used to be an atheist. I am not now. I don't really care what anyone else is :) It is nice to have civil discussions however without being insulted by religion haters.

And I don't think it is silly that we have created gods (and obviously we have). I think that is a simple and logical extension of ourselves and life. We are superior in many ways to tiny insects, a little more than general mammals, and so on - ie we are varying degrees above the other species of the planet in the evolutionary scale. Many of them may never even know it or see it, but they sure do feel the effects of us (reminds me of gravity in a way).

As we look at that which we have evolved past it is no wonder much of humankind has paused to wonder if someone/something has evolved past us. And as we have learned to create it is natural to ask if a higher power has learned better ways to create and were thusly brought about.

For me, the more science progresses the more of a case I do see for such a higher power.


And as far as contradictions in the bible - it was a book written by many people laying down what they saw and heard. Of course it is not perfect - in fact I don't think it claims to be perfect (note in Timothy it says the word of god, not the bible as it was not in existence at the time and even then, with the early books/torah/letters some scholars tend towards that which spoken by god and noted as such and not all the words in the letters).

Oh - and god being perfect? Not sure what the word perfect means. We may well have created god, but we also have created a lot of words that don't always have clear meaning outside mankind's view of the universe.