Lately, I've been reading Scott Adam's God's Debris, and got bemused at many of the ideas/ questions that he has put forth in it. Bemused, because the main character in this story, Avatar, throws a lot of uncomfortable questions about god, religion, and in fact everything we base our lives on. I'm half way through the book, and so far, what he has postulated is this:
If God is omnipotent (and, if at all there is god) and has free will, he would be driven by almost nothing, since anything is possible for him. After all, god would be beyond the concept of time, without birth or death. So the only thing that would be a challenge for him is check if he can cease his own existence. Arguably, he says, since he is all-powerful and all-knowing, this would be the only thing that would drive him to act at all. Creation, cycles of birth, n number of levels of heaven and hell, reincarnation etceteras would be of no amusement. Even the self-claiming ultimate species human would be less exciting than a rock, for in time scales large enough for him to 'see', he would be able to see interesting transformations in rocks over millions of years, whereas human existence, in such time scales, would be just a rapid flash.
Scott presents a new theory, where he says that, the existence of the universe we see, is possible only if god has succeeded in the only challenge that could drive him, exploding himself thereby creating us and all matter (and anti-matter?) from his debris!
His writing and ideas are well written than this, so when you find time, read it and scribble what you feel (it’s only a 144 page book).
I'll post more soon as I finish reading it.
Very interesting idea.
ReplyDeleteAs for the challenge to the omnipotent God, I am not so sure. We say that Natarajar in Sivathandavam, destroys and creates the world every instant. And may be he is constantly destroying and creating himself each instant, just to test his limits. And may be, since he is so busy, he has no time to worry about our problems, or indeed any problem at all.
Please do give us more of this.
are they searching such god particles. and collect all of them and remould to form god?
ReplyDeleteI just now remembered Hiranyagarbha, the golden egg. I think it means that God was once upon a time all alone as the golden egg and then He exploded, splattering the yolk which turned out to be the world.
ReplyDeleteIs that it, God's Debris?
May be...
ReplyDeleteBut i am also in some confusion.
They are also calling it Higgs Particle.
Who is Lord Higgs? Which religion worships Him?
And how?
More info might help.