KittenKoder
Senior Member
Reposting for those who missed it, or were too damned lazy to read it.
* Main Entry: 'god'
* Pronunciation: \ˈgäd also ˈgȯd\
* Function: noun
* Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German got god
* Date: before 12th century
1 capitalized : the supreme or ultimate reality: as a : the Being perfect in power, wisdom, and goodness who is worshipped as creator and ruler of the universe b Christian Science : the incorporeal divine Principle ruling over all as eternal Spirit : infinite Mind
2 : a being or object believed to have more than natural attributes and powers and to require human worship; specifically : one controlling a particular aspect or part of reality
3 : a person or thing of supreme value
4 : a powerful ruler
1) How is that a 'scientific' definition?
2) Source please..
Nothing to do with laziness, more to do with 'please explain'..
As for your talk on religions helping out scientifically, I do not dispute that has not happened. I'm talking more in a mainstream instance...
Source: god - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Got it from the actual book on my computer though. Scientific definition is the generally accepted definition of a term by scientists, number 3 and 4 are such. When our species first appeared animals and the elements were our gods, because they had more power than us and we needed them. Now we only need them but we have more power than they do, so we had to look higher for gods. Animism was the first religion, others evolved from that. Since our science has become so advanced, if there is any god it would have to be beyond that, though any alien species capable of long distance travel to our planet would fit the definition and would be our gods at this point in time, it is not impossible that there are beings more than even them, and more, and more, and more ... as science states, the universe is infinite, and within infinity all possibilities are enacted.