I don't think so. There's a schematic placeholder in most atheist rhetoric called the God of the Gaps. (I'm not accusing the religious amongst of us of using that or relying on it. I only raise it to make my point.) Back in college (surrounded by unthinking religiosity at every turn), I would appeal to the GotG as a Kierkegaardian shunting. It allows, say, electrical engineering students to focus on the practical without getting caught up in stupid arguments like what happens when something's frozen to absolute zero. "God" is nothing but a variable like "x" or "p". It's meaning is irrelevant or arbitrary. The semantic content of any sentence containing that symbol is defined by the *rest* of the sentence.
Personally, I have no concept of God, except as a variable to be solved for once you have enough other sentences in the system. Change any one clause in any one of those other sentences, and the grounding/binding/evaluation for God changes accordingly, lazily. As such, there is no "likeness of God", it's an emergent property of whatever *other* language you choose to use. Many of us don't include the symbol in our language at all. There are entire universes that don't rely on such a symbol. But my facility with these language games allows me to use the symbol in ways such that the other discussants come away thinking I agree with them about the binding/value of the symbol. I played such games a lot as a kid in Texas ... not so much anymore. On 10/5/24 15:53, Stephen Guerin wrote:
On Fri, Oct 4, 2024 at 3:43 PM glen <geprope...@gmail.com <mailto:geprope...@gmail.com>> wrote: But to suggest that it's "godlike" says more about the person than it does about the state of technology. Yes, and to suggest that it's not 'godlike' says more about the person's likeness of God than it does about the state of technology.
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