Who is to say that there isn't a "higher" existence that exists beyond our realm? Maybe these "higher" beings created us? It doesn't do away with God but acknowledges our uncertainty as to we came into being, hence the alternative possibilites. I guess then what could be said is that the "higher beings" that created the universe would have to exist because of God in the first place, so in essence we're only nesting the god problem and not doing away with God.
there is and could be. but we couldnt comment on that. we dont know what infinite truly is nor eternal. we cannot know what it is like to be "outside" of time because we are immersed in this dimension. other dimensions with totally different properties may exist(string theory points to this) but we cannot intelligently comment on them. something we cannot experience or that is foreign is hard to argue, as ready examples are immenent.
what would you call these higher beings that create life? that can create organic materials? that would be some peoples definition of gods. the thing is, we cant know the characteristics of GOD. we as finite creatures cannot know infinite, we always place a boundary on it, trying to enclose something that is not enclosed. therefore, any attributes that we DO and DO NOT ascribe to god are wrong. he/she/it could very well have needs but thats not the depiction most major religions create. there could have been multiple creative creatures, but that just pushes the question back as to how they came, and if they are eternal and infinite then they are god, or gods by definition.
higher beings could have created us, a giant sausage could of, i dont know what god is, looks like etc etc. i know though from logic that something has to be infinite and eternal and create. the other alternative is that this universe is eternal by passing the creation(atheism), but science shows time had a beginning, and that the universe will end, hence not eternal.
I follow you until you start saying that singularity is tied in with God, or maybe Im misreading your point. Other views that I have read about describe God as existing in a different dimention, and in no way tied to our reality except that he brought it into existence. This also explains why it is hard for us to imagine an infinite and eternal God, since he exists outside of time and matter. It's actually pretty confusing to me so maybe you could fill me in on this.
i contend we are god/gods but not god. ken wilber is a good philosopher on the GODHEAD and such. there is the ultimate perfection which is god, then there is the finite inperfection which is god manifest to experience himself. from my earlier posts you know my beleifs.so at the beginning of time(i dont know how to not use time, but it is wrong) god is all there is. this is logical, if god created, this implies he was before the creation. if you are all that exists, you cannot experience yourself, polarity(black/white) defines experience. so god created, or has to create to be god, to experience god, to exist. there has to be something other then god for god to know he is god. so god is perfect and infinite. how can you experience infinite, it is boundless. the answer is you cant. how can you experience perfection? you cant, its perfect. so god creates finite(our existence, and many others imo) to experience infinite. because if you know what it means to be finite, you then can experience your infite. god also created this imperfection to experience perfection, same logic as above.
so based on all this logic, i made some of my own conclusions. we, the universe are part of god, the imperfect, finite part(not the godhead perfect, infinite part). so you would expect that if we are part of this THING then in the actual primary reality we are all part of one giant thing, god. and this is exactly what we find. we are god experiencing himself, but not the theres the other side to god, the side we are not at the moment, the infinite and perfect. so our universe is god, god is in the universe but not like the religious god, or as an active part, but the unverse is god. follow? its a little confusing but the logic is so simplistic it smacks of truth( truth is always simple).
so when you read in the bible, koran that god is closer then your jugular, or knows your every thought, this is literally true. how? because your god, he knows what you know because it his him. you know your thoughts. you can know your every move. but you cannot know anothers because they are seperate. seperation is only an illusion, god is all, therefore god knows everything, always, everywere.
so there is two gods if that makes it easier, but they are the same god.
theres the head(perfect) and the body(us) but they are the same thing, just seperated. this is like what people in deep meditation say, they feel lke they are everything, that they are boundless. this is true, this is the true realtiy.however, if we knew that, we could not experience ourselves, nor could god, making it pointless. thus, we cant know so we can experience.
sorry for the long post bro, im trying to make it clearer.
Is this why we think of the everything as part of the "universe"? Singularity ties everything in existence to the universe (thinking of it as a whole rather than random things existing in non-existence), so even though there's no boundaries to the "universe", we think of it as one- this singularity is the universe. I'm not sure if u're following me but that just occured to me as I was typing up the reply
haha, i dont follow you lol.
. the singularity is a event, the beginning of the big bang as far as we know. it is the point were we cant go back any further. it is the point were the laws break down and our calculations fail. it is a real problem in cosmology.
clarify your point if you can, i think i get what your saying, but i dont want to mis-interpret you.