A “saved by grace” Christian on the APE FB page asked why
all the atheists are so careful to clarify that they don’t consider each
experience they’ve had since the start of the project to be a “revelation.” He
wondered “Why
is everyone so afraid to Just call Him God for the duration of this experiment…?”
He suggested we were afraid our intelligence would evaporate if we had a
genuine experience. It's only a matter of time until someone accuses us of "thinking too much."
If the other skeptics are like me, they’re not necessarily
obsessed with their intelligence; they just have more experience than most
people at having to admit when they’ve been wrong. If it happens to you enough, you learn to state
things in a more open-ended way.
Certainty is a luxury that only comes with blind faith.
Personally, I do stay away from the word “god” on this project, but only because I think any supreme being that might exist would be insulted by
that label. None of the gods men have written about seem up to the task of
imagining, much less running the universe we live in. They may be far more
powerful than men, but there are worlds of difference between our concepts of
deities and what it would take to create multiple infinite universes. Any being that could accomplish that is going
to have a perspective too large to be “jealous” for the worship of a
pseudo-intelligent species like ours.
