Monday, July 19, 2010

God=Intelligence+Eternity

What or who is God? The many religions of man have answers to this question, but I wish to propose an answer not based on religion, but on logic and experience. A simple answer I've come up with is encapsulated in the title to this post, God is intelligence alive forever. Intelligence and eternity are logical concepts, and so too is existence. Each idea may be explained in a sentence amenable to analysis and understanding. Intelligence is the quality of beings knowing things. Eternity is persistence of something forever. Existence means being alive or actual. Each concept has an opposite which helps to define it. The opposite of intelligence is dumbness or not being able to know things. Eternity's opposite is a moment in time. The antithesis of existence is death or not being alive or being unreal. God is everlasting intelligence. Imagine your own mind, not subject to time and death, alive forever. Your mind would not grow tired, but could sleep. Your mind would know how it works, having figured that out and would figure out a lot more, like how to make things, other minds for instance. This is a crude way of understanding intelligence existing eternally. If we persist in imagination, examining the thesis of intelligence existing forever, like counting numbers without end, in sequence, we're dumbstruck by the realization that anything is possible and the possible contains eternity, a kingdom without time. YHWH. (If the most intelligent species in the universe has the idea of possibility, then there must be a knower beyond them. Without the notion of possiblility, there is sameness, no development.) Look at human science grappling with the universe and how it got here and how it works. How the universe is working indicates to scientists that the universe started in an infinitesimal big bang, yet we may ask, was this explosion of matter just a quantum fluctuation in a vast void or perhaps the result of a prior contraction of material or maybe two bubbles colliding. Wherever there is a horizon, there is something beyond the horizon, no?