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The oddity of Goddity

Sugar crystal in polarised light, photo by the brillliant niknak3 From what vantage point can you see God if it isn't from a vantage point above God, surveying God, so to speak? There is an implied dualism in the demand to see empirical evidence for the existence of God; between the observer and the observed. How can you see your own head without a mirror? If you are God stuff and if everything is God stuff then you are looking right at God from God not from some vantage point. If I were a theologian I could pronounce that God and his creation are one. Except of course humans are not bright enough at this stage to encompass it and probably never will be. The atheists real argument is: 'Just enjoy all the stuff, learn how to use it and don't worry about where it comes from.' Ants in a sugar bowl. Curiosity about God is the original scientific impulse. The Ionian natural philosophers started off by asking the question. 'What i...