God's Debris by Scott Adams

[joeactor]

Hello gang,

Just wondering if anyone else has read "God's Debris" by Dilbert creator Scott Adams?

I had read it several months back and found some of the content to be thought provoking.

You can download a free PDF copy here...

... and there's a Wiki summary on it here.

Happy Exploring,
JoeActor

[Will]

HA! The premise is very clever.

God's Debris creates a philosophy based on the idea that the simplest explanation tends to be the best (a corruption of Occam's Razor). It surmises that an omnipotent God annihilated himself in the Big Bang, because an omniscient God would already know everything possible except his own lack of existence, and exists now as the smallest units of matter and the law of probability, or "God's debris", hence the title.

I'd like to think of myself as perpetually existing between skeptic and avatar. I could never make the full shift to avatar as whether I "believe" in science is immaterial; science is.

[curiosityandthecat]

Love, love, love that book. I read it a few years back during my undergrad. Got onto a roll with books like it: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman, God's Debris of course, and the like.

I recall finishing the book and turning directly to page one to begin again. The Religion War was really good, too. I can't remember which one of them, but in the introduction he talks about the language he uses in the book and how it contains aspects of ... well, hypnosis, basically. It creates a feeling of being deeply moved by the book but not truly remembering anything you just read.  

[joeactor]

Will: yeah, the premise is very interesting.  It's a good read - surprising how many concepts are explored.

Curio:  Cool!  I'll have to check out those other books in my (dubious) spare time - thanks!

[MommaSquid]

I read God's Debris a few years ago, and thoroughly enjoyed it.  The chapter entitled Relationships was especially entertaining.  I agree with this bit:  

People do not follow advice.  People are only capable of receiving information.

Scott Adams said he used elements of hypnosis in this book.  


I wasn't as impressed with The Religion War.  Eventually I'll read them both again, but right now I'm working on The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.

[joeactor]

...right now I'm working on The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.

Yeah, me too... It's the kind of book I just can't seem to pick up ;-)

[MommaSquid]

...right now I'm working on The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.

Yeah, me too... It's the kind of book I just can't seem to pick up ;-)

Oh, no!  I'm quite the opposite...I'm loving this book.  And, as I read, I head Richard Dawkins' lovely accent.  (It makes the science more palatable.)

[joeactor]

Yeah, I know this is an ancient topic, but I got an update!

There's an audio book version in the works by a collegue of mine:
[youtube:2u6v9vgm]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAcsmgaHpNQ[/youtube:2u6v9vgm]

Enjoy,
JoeActor

[Miss Anthrope]

i read God's Debris a couple years ago, I remember enjoying it a lot. I'll have to download it again, I've forgotten so much. Wasn't there a part about a church with differently colored stained glass windows and bees looking through them? Or was that one of Adams' other books?

[Heretical Rants]

Scott Adams said he used elements of hypnosis in this book.

All good authors do.