God's Debris

Jag läste nyss en extremt bra bok.
God’s Debris av Scott Adams, skaparen av Dilbert.

Jag trodde ursprungligen  att det skulle vara en lite komisk och satirisk vy på gud. Eller att den åtminstone skulle förneka gud. Vilket den inte gör, utan snarare presenterar en alternativ vy av gud.
Det är just detta som är så fantastiskt med boken, den presenterar vyer, argument och teorier om gud, fri vilja och diverse andra filosofiska ämnen som jag aldrig tidigare sätt.

En fantastiskt uppfriskande bok!

Jag tänkte dra några citat. Jag hoppar lite och drar ut det viktiga ur sidan.
Allting handlar om två personer i en konversation.

“Does God have free will?”
“Obviously he does”
“I’ll admit there’s some ambiguity about whether human beings have free will, but God is omnipotent. Being omnipotent means you can do anything you want. If God didn’t have free will, he wouldn’t be very omnipotent.”
“Indeed. And being omnipotent, God must be able to peer into his own future, to view it in all its perfect detail.”
“Yeah, I know. You’re going to say that if he sees his own future, then his choices are predetermined. Or, if he can’t see the future, then he’s not omnipotent.”
“Omnipotence is trickier than it seems”

“Look, four billion people believe in some sort of God and free will. They can’t all be wrong.”
“Very few people believe in God.”
“Four billion people say they believe in God, but few genuinely believe. If people believed in God, they would live every minute of their lives in support of that belief. Rich people would give their wealth to the needy. Everyone would be frantic to determine which religion was the true one. No one could be comfortable in the thought that they might have picked the wrong religion and blundered into eternal damnation, or bad reincartion, or some other unthinkable consequence. People would dedicate their lives to converting others to their religions.”

“At some level of consciousness, everyone konows that the odds of picking the true religion — if such a thing exists — are nil.”

Där finns så massvis av bra material att jag skulle kunna quota hela boken, men jag får helt enkelt sluta här och säga att du ska köpa den.
Så sätt igång nu!