‘God’s Debris’ is a book written by Dilbert creator Scott Adams and is a thought experiment into the postulation of the nature of existence. The basic premise of God’s debris is that there was an omnipotent and omniscient God who through having these qualities had no challenges at all in life; he knew what would happen next, could cause what happened next and whenever he deviated an action he already knew the next one. Due to the nature of his existence the only challenge left for God would be to destroy himself, in this he succeeded and we are now ‘God’s Debris’.

Now Here’s a paradox that presents itself, In order for someone to be omniscient they must know everything possible in time, even their own destruction, and their whole existence would be futile as they would know their every move and action. Omnipotence is easily disqualified with the following:

“Can God create a rock that is too heavy for him to lift?”

If he does he’s not omnipotent if he doesn’t he’s not omnipotent. Anyway my point was to show that I believe Adam’s interpretation would be more correct to say he is as omnipotent and omniscient as logically possible, but it is a thought experiment after all.

So the basic idea of God’s debris is that everything that encompasses the entire Universe is God, he destroyed himself spreading his material into miniscule portions and is now reforming. If you run by Descartes theory that in any chemical reaction no substance can be created only reconfigured, then God’s debris fits in perfectly as nothing is created really in this universe, just reconfigured from other atoms, The theory that the universe is continually expanding and then will eventually start shrinking also fits in with God’s debris as effectively God explodes to expand space, and then as he reforms the matter reforming causes the universe to shrink.

Finally God’s debris even fits in with Plato’s theory of knowledge in that we live in order to gain as much knowledge as possible, reincarnate and learn again, until we know the absolute of all knowledge and live on the plane of forms and ideas. The forms or ideas could simply relate to the existence God before he decided to swallow a grenade, but it is relevant that God’s debris fits in with a lot of philosophical and even religious thought like Hinduism.

The only real question to me about God’s debris is maybe God destroyed himself not as a challenge but for an actual purpose, this can only be theorised of course as the motivation for it would be unknown but it makes you wonder that if Adam’s theory is true then what would cause such a drastic action of destruction in order to reassimilate?

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Posted: 09|12|07 at 9:54 am. Filed under: Science.
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