Post #52 "The Question of God"

Let's consider God, here. God is certainly the point of contention between religion and science. How would religion and science view God in relation to Reality and Non-reality? How would religion and science view the reality of non-reality? How would religion and science view the reality of 'Nothing'? How do religion and science respond to the question of what happens when 'nothing' stirs? How do religion and science respond to the following questions?...... What happens when 'nothing' stirs? What about 'nothing' stirring 'nothing'? Does not movement/friction produce heat which in turn produces water? What causes 'nothing' to move? What causes vibration in 'Nothingness'? What stirs this vast limitless void? Religion's answer is sure and confident. Science, however, is baffled and seemingly has no answer to the God question. Science also seems to be uncomfortable with religion's faith response. So, what about God?

Would God be in Nothingness? Would God begin that which would end and dissolve in the abyss? Would God create a self-image that does not really exist? Would God create a cosmos and whatever lies beyond that does not exist in that God's own Reality? Would God create that which begins and then ends? Is this God of religion a God of Nothingness?

If Creation, as image, is the Place of non-reality, then this God of religion must be the God of Creation and the God of Creation must be the God of Non-reality. Does this God, then, exist only within the realm of that which is created, being that that which is created exists only to and within itself and does not exist in Reality? What of the Reality that is the subject or the host of that which is imaged? Is this issue where religion and science refuse to meet? Actually, it seems that science wants  to find a rationale for or against the existence of God. The issue of god, gods, or God creating what may be 'nothing' seems to be at the heart of the religion/science conflict. Reality or Non-reality? Can that which is God, create that which is 'nothing'/image? This seems a valid question.