The Problem of Unfishiness

[ciphergoth]

I am extremely flattered that my favourite atheistic blogger, Greta Christina, has taken a comment I made in her journal and made a post about it. I'm not sure she's quite nailed it on how what she discusses is different from questions like the nature of abiogenesis, but all the same I like the post and am very happy to have played a part in bringing it about.

Comments

Re: Assuming you're talking about an interventionist god...

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

But then... why bother?

It just seems so much more likely that mankind made up gods in order that they'd have someone to blame when things went wrong, and someone to ask to make things better, than that an omnipotent, omniscient being made mankind just as... a game? An experiment? Not even that, though, since God already knows the outcome.

Re: Assuming you're talking about an interventionist god...

[wildeabandon.livejournal.com]

I find "Why bother?" a very difficult question to answer because it's so axiomatically obvious to me that any attempt to answer is going to sound frivolous, but basically, existing is way better than not.

Re: Assuming you're talking about an interventionist god...

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Yes, for the individual, but not for the deity doing the creating - it doesn't matter whether he creates people or not.