Thursday, June 16, 2005

No god in this fight

Given quantum physics and Einstein's theories, the idea of a personal god like the one depicted in the Old Testament, shouldn't seem so strange and irrational as critics of religion would like us to think. If evolution of life on earth is accepted, why should it be so strange to believe that the same process has occurred before, even in another universe. Recently I read or heard a statement by a cosmologist that it might be possible to create a new universe in the laboratory. What would that make the researcher who does it?

I'd have a much harder time praying, if I thought of God in terms like the Nicene Creed, without body, parts or passions, everywhere and nowhere, all powerful, immaterial. That's as good a description of nothing as I can think of.

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