At one level, you can assert that God is unknowable because we have baked “unknowable” into the Godly hypothesis. In that sense, you’re just kinda blandly asserting unknown unknowns and trying to prove such a thing’s existence becomes a fool’s errand.
At another level, you end up with a God Of The Gaps, which recedes as our own understanding of the world around us expands. And at some point, you have to ask why we’d even care if this God did exist? A God that is forever retreating from human perception seems very different from the Abrahamic Deity or the Hindu Pantheon or Japanese Ancestor Ghost that is constantly trying to make itself known.
Evangelicals assert their god as an elephant in the room. It’s something so big and so meaningful and so obvious that it cannot be ignored. Why are we trying to find this same god in the space between Plank Lengths and on the back side of Black Holes?
At one level, you can assert that God is unknowable because we have baked “unknowable” into the Godly hypothesis. In that sense, you’re just kinda blandly asserting unknown unknowns and trying to prove such a thing’s existence becomes a fool’s errand.
At another level, you end up with a God Of The Gaps, which recedes as our own understanding of the world around us expands. And at some point, you have to ask why we’d even care if this God did exist? A God that is forever retreating from human perception seems very different from the Abrahamic Deity or the Hindu Pantheon or Japanese Ancestor Ghost that is constantly trying to make itself known.
Evangelicals assert their god as an elephant in the room. It’s something so big and so meaningful and so obvious that it cannot be ignored. Why are we trying to find this same god in the space between Plank Lengths and on the back side of Black Holes?