How is christianity not plausible if you believe in an all powerful god, which this god clearly is? So here we have this guys god, who can kill off the dinosaurs, and "set an alarm for the first sign of aerial activity" which of course "he usually does" which clearly puts him in the all powerful category, and on the other hand we have the christian god who creates the world, basically purges the bad with the flood, and then appears in human form, which this guys god does too. You are just hating on the christianity to hate on christianity, and I'm no christian, but I don't see how you can say that everything in this story could be true, yet bash a very similar creation story.
Now, getting into why this guy seems pretty silly, there's the basic problems of a theist god compared to a deist god, like the problem of why a god who is all powerful, all knowing, and all loving would allow evil to take place. This guy says basically "it is for our own good and development" well guess what, this guys god is all powerful and all knowing, he can do anything he damn well pleases, so he could easily make a development system that worked just as well without evil.
Theres the problem of voluntary action and free will with an omniscient god, as this god is which described by Nelson Pike as "If god existed at time 1, and if Jones did X and Time 2, it was not within Jones' power at time 2 to refrain from doing X".
This guy is simply trying to reassure himself, and the general mood of this article is just him patting himself on the back for not being christian.
"‘so we’re not obliged to "please" you or follow your alleged guidelines or anything like that?’
‘absolutely not. Never issued a single guideline in the lifetime of this Universe. Have to find your own way out of the maze. And one early improvement is to stop expecting me - or anyone else - to come and help you out.' "
Except of course for when he came and helped us out, say in the case of talking to this guy, and when he comes right out and says
"The mammals who are, as you rightly say, couldn’t get a foothold against such mighty predators. You’ve now reached the stage where you could hold your own even against dinosaurs, but that’s only been true for about a thousand years, you wouldn’t have stood a chance 2 million years ago, so the dinosaurs had to go."
The entire exchange about how god became god is terrible and avoids any attempt to answer it other than avoiding the question with one word answers that are intentionaly unclear so the auther doesn't have to do any real hard thinking.
The purpose of this article is best summed up by these two passages:
I have discussed this with the level two species and the consensus is that this tiny prod is capable of increasing the contenders for level two without letting through any damaging traits. It has been tried in 312 cases. The jury is still out on its real benefits although it has produced a 12% increase in biological species embracing the transition to information species.
And Christianity is rediculous?
‘Why me? Why pick on an atheist of all people? Why are you telling me all this? And why Now?’
‘Why You? Because can accept my existence without your ego caving in and grovelling like a naughty child. '
He bascially could put a picture of himself masturbating here and it would achieve the same purpose.
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