Imagine a planet with life on it, created by a omnipotent creator (god)?

Question

What would be a reasonable expectation for life on this planet, from the supposition that it all was created by this one god:

a) the entire planet worships and honors that god.
b) most of its creation worships that god, but some don't want to worship or have turned away from it.
c) the planet is a wild mishmash of beliefs, with people believing in thousands of different gods or none at all.

Answer 1

Oh come on, Zebra, you can't argue beliefs with logic! ;) It'll never work. Half of the fundies will outright refuse it, the other half won't even understand it and respond with some sort of a bible quote.

Answer 2

READ ME READ ME.....BEST ANSWER HERE MAYBE ok 1st I do think there is a creator but no one really knows weather or not that creator is an intellegent being or just some energy source. what i am trying to say is in order for existence to have began there had to be something that was just always here. what that something is no one knows. Now In this existence there are things that are possible and things that are impossible. And everything that happened so far is in the possible to have happened with out some divine hand. EVERYTHING.. Why people think that the creator of this massive existence holds this small little place in some high regard is beyond me. there are plenty of other stars, with plenty of planets that have roughly the same temps to support life throughout the universe. I see no reason for you to think that god took special interest in this planet and placed it where he did. This area is not even a safe haven. we are surrounded by meteors and comets that can erase all of us off the face of existence. Now back to your statement. Creation alone, well existence alone does point logically that there may be a creator/starter IE: God. But it does not prove that god has done anything to this existence since the 1st milli second of its creation.

Answer 3

Probably B, possibly A, but C makes no sense at all. Unless, of course, you postulate a cruel god who uses religious wars to keep the excess population down. Even then, an omnipotent creator would not have let them get so out of hand now. What are we up to, something like 6.5 BILLION???

Would an omnipotent creator have let a world run down to where global warning threatens to do most or all of those creatures in?

Answer 4

If a 'tri-omni' god existed, then it would be his desire that all human beings have an unshakeable belief in his existence and a perfect knowledge of what behaviour he wants from us, and it would be within his capacity to achieve this. Since many people neither believe in a god nor agree on what is the right way to behave, such a god does not exist.

Answer 5

It depends on the god. If the god was a good parental example it would be easily accessible and constantly ensuring that it was understood and "a" would result. If it was devious or unconcerned, it would leave a book that was allegedly infallible but without evidence, and it would have make random visits to a very limited audience, this would likely result in "c".

Answer 6

depends if the creator intervened at some point,

the planet could've been created and it's inhabitants clueless of a creator if given the preface of your question, the creator chose not to give them that depth of knowledge, but if he showed himself than you would have all sorts of stories bogged down into legends or myths as the centuries passed

Answer 7

To me I wouldn't care what those lifeforms did because they are assumed to be individuals. I would have the knowledge that I were their creator and no matter what aspect or how many aspects they were worshiping, It would be me in the end of things.

Answer 8

"Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks, those who write new values in new tables. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters, for everything around him is ripe for the harvest"
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus spoke Zarathustra

Answer 9

Zebra,
IF freewill were to be allowed then I would expect that the most expected answer should be "C". If that GOD were to reign in a manner that would allow no such thing then we might expect the people to be following "A". Have a wonderful week.
Thanks,
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Answer 10

Acid Zebra - you also assume that this created world must be created in some specific 'reasonable' fashion. Reasonable to who? Whose reason trumps all others? Reason is relative.

Hope all is well with you fella
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