Isn't it perfectly logical to assume that God is a Platypus?

Question

1) The Platypus has features of a bird(duck-like bill), a mammal(fur and beaver-like tail), a reptile(lays eggs and lives in water &land), an amphibian(webbed feet), and a fish(um, able to swim?). Of all earthly beings, surely the platypus is the most likely to be god.
2) The platypus has a bill that can detect electrical energy in nerve impulses AND has venom from a spur on its hind legs.
3) The platypus is one of the most intelligent beings on Earth. The fact that it evolved into how it is now is extraordinary. Platypi fossils have also been found, proving that it existed millions of years ago, its features brilliantly adapted to survive.

Although unlikely(very) that God exists, assuming that he/she/it did, wouldn't it be relatively logical and reasonable for me to speculate that God is a platypus?
No joking, think about it.

proper gander: Hmmm, we can never be absolutely sure, can we?:P

Answer 1

I think you may be on to something. Perhaps you should start a new religion based on this theory.

All hail the Platypus!!!!

:)~

Answer 2

Absolutely reasonable of you to see God in this peaceful, multifaceted creature. A very worthy symbol of GOD at the very least - Since it embodies in ONE ~ many characteristics of life as we know it upon this Earth.

Personally, I don't see God as one entity or creature but rather as a force or energy that flows thru all that lives - including the earth; the stars, etc etc.& connecting it all -- Anyhow, that's what I decided about God when I was no more than 9 yrs old; and, that simple little childhood take on the phenomena hasn't wavered since. "Still crazy after all these years?" It’s my own thought and it feels good to me, so I keep it around. I was raised by conservative, lovers of nature and family who were not religious. They didn’t tell anyone what they ought to believe & what they taught was by example / not lecture (Thank the holy Platypus for that !)... It’s hard enough to separate the Wheat from the Chaff as it is.
How ‘bout Platypus for President, i.e, if he doesn’t get the GOD votes?

BTW, I'll bet you could detect electrical impulses too...

Answer 3

God does not take any form. He is a being that exists and dwells all around us. If he was a platypus then well everything Christians, Catholics, etc. believe in is not reality. God has been here forever never taking forms of any being alive or unalive. God is not male or female but a heavenly God that may punish you or give you eternal life. How can he be anything? He is god, 3 in 1. What makes you think that I do not know. God is nothing we can describe. He doesn't take forms like i said before. So God is not a platypus... Jeez kid...

Answer 4

I think the "perfectly logical to assume" phrasing is appropriate here.

Logic doesn't work unless you have premises from which to derive conclusions. It also produces no conclusions that can be claimed to be proven true: all you prove is that the conclusion is (if you have reasoned correctly) true IF the premise is true.

There's no restriction on the premises, so it's perfectly logical to assume such a thing. Whether it's reasonable depends on what you can get out of such a chain of reasoning.

Here's another possible religious basis:

Sir Arthur: ... the Greeblings were short, dark, shrublike folk who worshipped the ladder.

Interviewer: Why was that?

Sir Arthur: Well, because they’d never actually seen one, so they couldn’t prove it existed and, naturally, they believed in it. Question of faith, really. Various animals were sacred as well. The giraffe, for example. Legend had it that were a Pict to kill a giraffe, his family would be cursed for all eternity.

Interviewer: How did the Picts know about the giraffe?

Sir Arthur: Well, they only knew the theoretical giraffe, which they revered because it didn’t need a ladder.

Answer 5

Well, my opinions are based upon my beliefs.

Although you do have some cogent observations to back up your argument, and although the idea is novel and very interesting, I would decline to acquiesce with the assertion that God is a Duckbilled Platypus (although I think Duckbilled Platypi are ******* awesome). LOL.

I think God is a spirit, and is incorporeal. He probably looks quite different than anything we can imagine or conceive. He can probably appear as whatever he wishes. Probably, and I know that this is insipid and unimaginative, God looks like the Sun to us. He probably looks like a star, and the light is strange, mesmeric, and inordinately powerful.

Answer 6

God is not in the universe She is the universe.

She created the universe from the only thing that She had available, Herself. There is no point where God stops and something else starts.

You and the most distant star from you in the universe both exist within the idea of God. God is experiencing through all of us all of the time.

This is a difficult concept for most people to comprehend because they have been taught nonsense about God. Like the idea that God lives far away on a cloud called heaven. God is not a raindrop. Raindrops live in clouds Not God. This is foolishness.

Jesus told us that the kingdom of God is within us. This is true because each and every one of us exist as a part of God. We live and move within our loving source. There is no moment or possibility that we can ever be apart from her.

Forget the silly stories that you have been told about a distant God that lives in the clouds. Look around you. Everything and everyone that you see is God.

Love and blessings.
Don

Answer 7

I agree with Don, god is the unexplainable, the emptiness that the universe is expanding through, the single truth that holds all of this crazy *** reality together,

Not a Platypus

Answer 8

no. first of all, God is not an animal. He created animals. seccond of all, He can do a ton more than, what, lay eggs and swim and detect electrical impulses and produce venom and *be intelligent* and evolve into something cool... He does anything He wants to do. He MADE platypus eggs... He's omnipresent, almighty and all-knowing. He has no time and no body, cept when Jesus came to earth... so it REALLY REALLY worries me when someone tries to say God is a PLATYPUS. rediculous.

Answer 9

heisenberg's uncertainty principle and also the general theory of relativity show that there is limit of sceintific precision. beyond this limit the sceinces i.e. the objectivity i.e. the languages cannot go.

logic is expressed in sentences, syntax and syllogism. if language is barred there then the logic will also be ousted from there. hence the logic cannot a beyond point of existence. logic does not know waht is there beyound that point.

you go through my two articles "God of Contradictions" and "the Post Quantum God" available at my site lightinlife.com

the urls of these two are

http://www.lightinlife.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=77&Itemid=105

http://www.lightinlife.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=78&Itemid=106

after these two articles you will be able to know the precise answer.

Answer 10

In the Bible it says that god made man in his own image....In which case we should all look like platipii.

unless of course we have presumed we are man and the real man is the platypus.