| Re: Do you believe in God?
"If there were such a thing, we could not know anything. The world could have been created anew ten seconds ago by such a being - along with all our memories of it apparently existing before then."
This is likely to be the most accurate description of reality! The entire Universe recreates itself every moment of its existence. Waves of energy (memory) travel across a field of space thus creating matter as this energy is transferred.
Is it so difficult to believe that Life's force is the transfer of Energy? And that this energy that is being transferred and fragmented and recombined is GOD??????? Here is a simple example: energy of the sun shines on Earth, the that energy is transformed through photosynthesis into nutrients that are transferred to a passing cow that eats the grass, we in turn may eat the Cow and transfer yet again the energy coming from the sun via the grass via the cow and into us. This would mean that believe it or not you and I are given life from the energy (Hmm, God?) that has been transferred from the beginning of it all until the day you eat your hamburger, even if you don't go to Sunday school.
Your description would be of a static Universe in which nothing moves and there can be no memory whatsoever, this does not correspond to our experience of reality and is a description of nothingness, which is also altogether another concept concerning the nature of God ...
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