Define God

[steve_bank]

^Do you listen to dead musicians? Do you think that wheels are old technology? Do only living scientists have a bearing on science today? As a great scientist once said, "if I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

Fish and visitors stink in three days.

Slow and steady wins the race.

 

[ideologyhunter]

Don't bite the hand that feeds the golden goose, because a watched pot saves nine and a zebra cannot change its spots. (My grandpa said this to me over and over. He was in the nuthouse.)

 

[lostone]

I'll drink to that. OTOH, I'll drink to almost anything. May God, who created this nuthouse, but does not exist, forgive us.

 

[DBT]

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush?

 

[steve_bank]

Don;t eat the yellow snow.

 

[Learner]

I'll drink to that. OTOH, I'll drink to almost anything. May God, who created this nuthouse, but does not exist, forgive us

(Keeping with the sense of humour of the thread)

I think you must mean the nuthouse is a causation of evolution, coz God does not exist (in your paradigm).

Natural selection are biological adaptations through time.

An adaptation is a physical or behavioural characteristic that helps an organism to survive in its environment.

Nuttiness therefore exists because it is either, a "survival" characteristic,or....

... its the total opposite. Which therefore means: "natural selection" ain't doing a very good job keeping 'nuttiness' out of the survival pool.

 

[DBT]

God exists and He is the prankster that created a nutty world?

 

[lostone]

God exists and He is the prankster that created a nutty world?

Good a guess as any. IMO, more likely he is incompetent, insane, or non-existent. But those are boring options.

 

[Thomas II]

 

[Learner]

God exists and He is the prankster that created a nutty world?

It's only a nutty world for humans when it involves humans. "Nutty humans" the animals of the wild must often be saying to themselves.

Biblically speaking...
..that is the result and consequence as its been told for millennia: humans can't run the world by themselves!

'Thall shalt not be nutty' ,sums up the overall essence of the commandments.

Join us my secular friends.
No Jew, no gentile, all are free from nuttiness in Christ.

 

[DBT]

God exists and He is the prankster that created a nutty world?

It's only a nutty world for humans when it involves humans. "Nutty humans" the animals of the wild must often saying to themselves.

Biblically speaking...
..that is the result and consequence as its been told for millennia: humans can't run the world by themselves!

Thall shalt not be nutty sums up the overall essence of the commandments.

Join us my secular friends.
No Jew, no gentile, all are free from nuttiness in Christ.

If a God - being omnipotent and omniscient - created the world and humans, He created them to be precisely the way they are.

 

[Learner]

God exists and He is the prankster that created a nutty world?

It's only a nutty world for humans when it involves humans. "Nutty humans" the animals of the wild must often saying to themselves.

Biblically speaking...
..that is the result and consequence as its been told for millennia: humans can't run the world by themselves!

Thall shalt not be nutty sums up the overall essence of the commandments.

Join us my secular friends.
No Jew, no gentile, all are free from nuttiness in Christ.

If a God - being omnipotent and omniscient - created the world and humans, He created them to be precisely the way they are.

Yes indeed... to be nurtured.

 

[steve_bank]

God exists and He is the prankster that created a nutty world?

It's only a nutty world for humans when it involves humans. "Nutty humans" the animals of the wild must often saying to themselves.

Biblically speaking...
..that is the result and consequence as its been told for millennia: humans can't run the world by themselves!

Thall shalt not be nutty sums up the overall essence of the commandments.

Join us my secular friends.
No Jew, no gentile, all are free from nuttiness in Christ.

If a God - being omnipotent and omniscient - created the world and humans, He created them to be precisely the way they are.

That pretty much sums it up.

 

[bilby]

If a God - being omnipotent and omniscient - created the world and humans, He created them to be precisely the way they are.

Indeed.

If God had meant men to fly, he would have given us airline tickets.

 

[ideologyhunter]

Yes indeed... to be nurtured.

You have to realize how hollow those words sound, around here. God is demonstrably nurturing us just as much as you'd expect an imaginary entity to do. Who does the nurturing on earth? People do. They step in with firefighting, policing, disaster relief; with medical treatment, elder care, counseling; with education and social work; with philosophy; with scientific research to improve living conditions, agriculture, medicine, and knowledge. As for God nurturing mankind in Bible terms -- this God picked one ethnic group as special above all the rest and gave them explicit permission to enslave the others, and explicit orders to exterminate the others in real estate disputes. I'm beating a long-dead horse here, yes, but it's lying here, right out in the open, with bleached bones and fly-blown scraps of hide. There's such an unsavory undercurrent to the Bible narrative that I find the airbrushing of it to be absurd.