To all my friends, here’s a relevant short presentation of George Carlin, written by John Nichols. Well, George Carlin has already become a part of me, among others.

By the way, if we can’t seem to make up our mind if God exists or not, let’s settle some minor issues first, maybe that will give us a clue:

If God exists, is he dead or alive?

The intelligent design (ID) pseudo-argument says that we, humans, are too improbable to just happen in nature, so we must be designed by somebody. If one attempts to take ID seriously, it follows that, if God’s alive, somebody must have designed him; we have to get an unlimited series of Gods, one the designer of the other, etc., an infinity of them.

So if we assume God exists and he’s alive, he can’t be The only One, but an infinity of Ones/Designers; we get too many of them, and all their priests have to be fed, naaaah, the whole earth is too small to afford that.

If we assume God exists and is unique, then the only option we can afford, as humans, is that God’s dead for us.

Then there would be no difference between God and George Carlin from now on. Well, there would still be one, George Carlin left a trace.

Anyway, let’s say God is dead, but was he alive sometime ago and later died for some reason? If God was alive some time ago, we run again into the same infinity story above, or maybe God’s designer decided to kill him at some point, but then we end up with an infinity of serial killer designers.

Then, we’re left with only one non-contradictory choice: God was always dead. Then, if God was always dead, and also God exists, then it(God) must be like a computer program (a set of instructions), let’s call it physics. Now, don’t ask who wrote that program, ’cause you’ll be back again to square one.

Conclusion: If it is assumed that God exists and that God is unique, then God is and was, forever, dead. But if God was dead forever, he’s as good as non-existent to us, the mere humans. Briefly put: If God is assumed to exist and to be unique, then God is completely irrelevant for humanity. You’re still left with the other choice though: God doesn’t exist. The moral: you’re better-off studying physics.

See you soon, George.

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