| Rath said: The truth is. You don't have to prove something exists in this world. You have to prove it doesn't exist. Because the absense of proof doesn't mean that something doesn't exist. The only thing that proves something doesn't exist is proof that something doesn't exist. The only real question is what counts as proof? For all three of the Abrahamic religions have a literal account of the creation of the earth and humans yet there is plenty of proof that this did not occur. I'm sure such proofs exist for other religions such as Taoism and Hinduism. The idea of a God that started the big bang and left it at that cannot be proven or disproven however taking the common meaning of Occam's Razor the simplest solution is most likely to be correct and as an omnipotent being is infinitely complex by definition it is therefore unlikely to exist. |
Who says it's literal? Who's to say if it was that god said it, and not just someone who wanted and explination and the romans rand with it? Or if it's really the word of God it's because we couldn't understand it or maybe got was just screwing with us?
All we really know is that we have proof that the Earth wasn't created in 6 days. Nobody disputes this, not even the Pope and he's the pope. (Ok some people do, but not a majority of people who believe in the abrahamic god.)
Considering the bible as we have it now, is just a small selection of what was a mass of christian writings, ones deemed most acceptable by the romans, it wouldn't be too surprising if some things in it were.
As for Occam's razor, the simplest solution isn't always correct. I also don't think an omipotent being is really that complex.
To me all one needs to do is use the old example of the 2-D man living in a 3-D world. We are the 2-D man in comparison to God. He can access all dimensions, even those that we think just might exist and yet can't perceive ourselves. By doing this and being able to travel through them as eaisly as we travel through 3-D God would be able to be outside of time. He would also be able to see the results of what he was doing in our world as he was doing it, giving him what would look like omnipotence to us. etc.
That would be an easy way for god to be everywhere and be "omnipotent".
