Although I respect my Atheist friends, I would not call myself atheistic in the usual sense of the word. I still hold dear, the cosmic mystery which in my lexicon is synonymous with the logical positivists position, that the concept of God is meaningless and will remain so until there is some consensus about its definition and some means of factual verification that would include some sort of predictive data. On the other hand, I sense that God must remain unknowable because of the human limitations of understanding and experience, as a sentient beings, which are not necessarily much more able to grasp the complexity, infinitude, and vastness of our universes than our domesticated pets, many of whom exhibit marvelous human traits such as rational decision-making, empathy, compassion, loyalty, and love. The above opinion, notwithstanding, the God Concept is one that humans can ill-afford to dismiss in their quest for scientific certainty and social progress. Call it, if you will, some sort of necessary force, underlying and propelling this very activity, of our existential state, which is governed by a single rule: Perfection means that our reach must eternally exceed our grasp. Atheists often criticize religion because of its tendency to anthropomorphisize reality and God. Stanley Kubricks response to this was to hoist atheists on their own petard, so to speak: Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.
Posted on: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 18:53:51 +0000
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