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Re:Spinoza’s God: Einstein believed in it, but what was it? by giveexamples on Friday October 15, 2021 @01:10AM (#28874531)
Look at your kitchen sink. On that metal lives a billion bacteria cells. Maybe some of them are even sentient. Do you even care to find out? Not really - its far beneath you. Humans are infinitely inferior to a god. We are no different to a moving rock.
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Re:Spinoza’s God: Einstein believed in it, but what was it? by omarfarooq on Friday October 15, 2021 @01:17AM (#28874564)
You're assuming God's values though.
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Re:Spinoza’s God: Einstein believed in it, but what was it? by nxmnxm99 on Friday October 15, 2021 @10:58AM (#28878388)
We are the only creature we know of that's capable of reasoning about our own existence and understanding our potential creation. That is a scientific fact of which there is no counterevidence.

To deny that in an effort to refute the potential existence of God is to cut off your nose to spite your face.

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Re:Spinoza’s God: Einstein believed in it, but what was it? by beecafe on Friday October 15, 2021 @10:59AM (#28878414)
This statement can also be taken as one as a limitation of our understanding of the internal lives of other creatures. And there's nothing scientific about it.
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Re:Spinoza’s God: Einstein believed in it, but what was it? by nxmnxm99 on Friday October 15, 2021 @01:09PM (#28880151)
The problem is, if you're going to make that case, the same argument can be applied to a limitation of our understanding of our origin.
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Re:Spinoza’s God: Einstein believed in it, but what was it? by mpfundstein on Friday October 15, 2021 @02:46AM (#28875027)
a sentient bacteria? How would that work? Does the bacteria have a huge brain so that sentience can emerge from it?
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Re:Spinoza’s God: Einstein believed in it, but what was it? by gremlinsinc on Monday October 18, 2021 @09:12AM (#28905083)
The entire universe we know could be but a single neuron firing in a huge brain of something much much bigger... and they don't even realize we exist...so size is very... relative/immaterial to sentience...we could be the sentient bacteria.
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