Re: WHICH IS THE REAL GOD?

"Gordon L. Richard" wrote:

> "bob young" <alaspectrum@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:47CABCFB.3100B7F1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> > Michael wrote:
> >
> (snip)
> >
> >> > I challenge religious believers to provide objective verifiable
> >> > evidence
> >> > that their god actually exists.
> >>
> >> I challenge challengers of religious believers to provide a gold coin
> >> made
> >> of silver.
> >>
> >> I know that you cannot do it, because the definition of "gold coin"
does
> >> not allow for it to be made of silver.
> >>
> >> This deficiency in your ability does not mean gold coins do not
exist,
> >> merely it is a deficiency in the definition, a flaw in your logic.
> >>
> >> Now then, while many definitions of god exist, they seem to have one
> >> thing
> >> in common -- such a being is *superior* to mortal man; therefore,
while
> >> it
> >> may happen that one god presents a man to another god, it will never
> >> happen that one man presents a god to another man.
> >
> > crap
> >
> The key problem in all this is that.......

.....man made 'Him' up and has been struggling to cover it up ever since

> God is so complex and so far beyond our
> limited human understanding that it is not possible for us to define or
> describe Him in any way other than by metaphors, similes, etc. Empirical
> proof of His existence is still far beyond our limited range. The best
we
> can hope to do is to grasp some of the basic ideas and acknowledge that
we
> fall far short of understanding God in full.
>
> Better understanding might be available through the use of a structured
> comparison between the human brain/mind and God. We might start with;
>
> The average adult human brain is comprised of approximately 100 billion
> neurons, each linked to other neurons by 1,000 to 10,000 synapses. This
> results in about 10^14 to 10^15 synapses. With this neural arrangement
we
> are capable of self and environmental awareness and communication with
> others. We are capable of a limited degree of memory of the past and
> extrapolation into the future. And we have a reasonably good ability to
> "engineer" things in our presence, to our advantage.
>
> The human brain's function is awesome, but it is trivial compared to
what a
> similar structure with a million times as many "synapses" could do. But,
why
> place even this number of synapses as an upper limit? Is there any limit
> when it comes to quantum coupling at the Planck level?
>
> Physicists have demonstrated faster than light-speed communications
between
> quanta and there seems to be no limit on this coupling speed. It appears
to
> be infinite.
>
> If quantum physics particles or strings are able to communicate at
infinite
> speed, across the entire universe/multiverse, could this provide the
means
> for a "cognizance" that encomp***** the entire universe/multiverse, and
> involves every entity, down to the smallest physical size. "Even the
hairs
> of our head are numbered," so to speak. Is this cosmic consciousness
God?
>
> In Christ, Gordon