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Quote by: iahag  Hmm, what precisely have we measured about god? Ill let you answer that.
But onto the next fallacious statement. You say god has been weighed. The definition of weight: 'the magnitude of the force exerted on a mass by gravity'. In your statement, your implying that god is a mass of some sorts and that he experiences gravity also.
I see now... So what is a spirit? Why is this 'hovering' over gods apparent creation significant? Why does he not 'hover' over land? Does he not 'hover' on over gaseous stars or planets with no liquid? 'Hover over' implies 'above something with respect to the direction of gravity, yet exempt from the force of gravity itself. Heh, you managed to contradict yourself in 2 paragraphs.
I assume by 'huge' you mean 'relatively large within the three spacial dimensions' (relative to what is up to you). And so by this statement, your implying that - god and heaven both exist within the 3 spacial dimensions -. Thus, your implying that god and heaven exists in that which we can see, interpret ... etc. Yet this is in contradiction to the modern theists view that god is in no way associated with our reality other than 'a mysterious guiding force'. I believe this is 2nd contradiction. (Hell, if the word 'other than' wasnt so damn specific the statement would contradict itself.) 
Perhaps its graphs like these.
Perhaps its statements like these. Graphic image warning http://www.betar.co.uk/articles/pict..._jews_cart.jpg
images like these
And stats like these that makes it hard to imagine the almighty fuzzbot.
But Im becoming heavily deviated in my rantings. |
Perhaps I am going a tad off topic with this reply, but I couldn't help it.
Perhaps God is allowing the short term sufferings in order to allow a longer-term good to occur. Think about this. How do we learn? We learn through difficulty and challenge. We learned how to walk by trying and falling all the time. Some people learn how to thread a needle, in the process poking themselves and drawing blood. We learn how to cook and a lot of the time end up burning ourselves in the process. A child gets a bad grade on a homework assignment. The parent knew how to do the work, but didn't. Does that make the parent a bad person? Of course it doesn't. Humans are inherently hard headed.