Atheists & Agnostics

An old and childish but slyly profound book. Most will know it but for those who don't it's a 3 dimensional figure trying to explain physical reality to 2-dimensional beings. Well worth a (re-)read when considering metaphysics. We understand the shared biology of mold and humanity because it is immanent in the world of our senses. There could be other biologies which are not. We cannot see UV or IR. We know they exist only because very clever people theorized, then experimented, then demonstrated. But try to explain them even to an intelligent mind like, say, Alfred the Great and you'll see a tiny sliver of the problem of humanity attempting to understand a putative god.

We are all in Flatland not just vis a vis deities but dimensions ourselves. Some physics equations, which I won't pretend to understand, only work if you posit 11 dimensions. I can't hope to explain that world. How could I hope to explain possible sentience not based on carbon?

Now let's be clear. I don't believe for a fraction of a second that some divine creator is lurking in the 11th dimension waiting to be demonstrated like infra-red light. It's so infinitesimal a probability it's not worth anything beyond idle metaphysical chit-chat like this. It's not impossible per se, and certainly not disprovable, but even if that one in a few quadrillion chance hits and some god ends up popping out of the multiverse's woodwork, I think we can safely bet it's not too worried about prayers, what we do on Sundays/Saturdays/Fridays, what some what some Levantine scribes put in the Torah/Gospels/Qu'ran, or how we use our genitalia, although the latter is likely to cause it some wry amusement.