God and Internet
I always find the question, or concept, of a some immortal being improbable That is my personal viewpoint and i do not want to impress this upon other people nor do i think that those who do believe are wasting their time. I am interested in two counter intuitive propositions, the first, is that through scientific discoveries and educations religions has be ousted from large portions of society, and that religion has been very hostile and resistant to this change. The second proposition is that the internet has facilitated to some growth in religion. i do not think that this has been taken to its full degree, like i have never heard of an online missionary who is aiming to convert only online people. but i am sure that this will eventually happen.
Back to my theme, these two propositions are both true, to a certain degree, and yet they seem conflictive. How can God have a presence in the internet, its not something He/She created. Humans created the internet, there is nothing natural about the internet, it itself is a social construction, if no one used it we would not talk about it, but it would still exists. It is amazing that we live at a time when almost everything can be accounted for by science, and if we cant, it seem probable that in near future we will be figure it out. Yet in this scientific society religion is still surviving. It has branched out with is members to the internet and made its presence felt there. Even through our innovations, and expansion of education, religion is making progress, or is growing, our culture is slowly becoming more religious. Where is my proof you ask? well lets look at the White House for a start. There are bible readings every day there, and participation is mandatory. The president frequently refers to God Almighty, and Mormanism is the fastest growing religion in North America. in some states of the US, school boards are haveing text books that say theory of evolution is just a theory, it is not fact, and motions to have Intelligent Design taught as a topic.
The theory of Intelligent Design does have some merit to it. When you find a watch for example, you do not suppose that this watch was just randomly made by nature, no you infer that a watch maker with a higher degree of complexity created the watch for a purpose, which is to tell time. So the same is extrapolated to the earth, it is so complex, it must have had a designer. Complexity is not a necessity of a creator, for example social relations are extremely complex but they had no single creator, and furthermore, there is no purpose to that. So for intelligent Design to even be logically consistent, God HAD to have designed earth with a purpose.
Now what is this purpose? well like all humans, and even the theory of evolution there is no universal consensus on what God’s purpose is. If God does have some grandiose purpose than what is his purpose for the internet? how could that possibly fit into His plan? Well the traditional response to that is, well God works in mysterious ways. Now to mean that god works in mysterious ways means that we do not understand him. If humans cannot understand him, how is it that we have his records? How can we have a bible if it is from a god we cannot comprehend or understand, would not the entire bible we discredit because oh well all those saints and such just could not understand what god was saying therefore it is meaningless.
As my philosophy professor said, philosophers and theologions really are just arguing where the lump under the carpet is going to end up, no one can actually remove the dilemma.
