A different way of going about this is to unpack what we mean by “god”. We can ask about morality in worlds that contains something similar, something that is arguably “god” and arguably not.
Polytheism. A whole bunch of gods that worked together to create the world. Between them they wrote the bible, koran and most other religious texts.
A god matching all the typical descriptions, spaceless timeless creator of life and earth.. Responsible for all the bible and jesus stuff. This god is made out of particles behaving under physical laws.
Perhaps this god is actually an alien that evolved billions of years ago, then used their advanced tech to travel to earth, create life and write the bible.
Maybe a ASI that is simulating the world as we know it. A team of human sociologists are instructing the AI, and told it to write some books and perform some miracles, to see how that effected society.
Stand off god. Spaceless timeless all knowing creator of the universe. Didn’t write the bible, or even inspire it. Not related to Jesus in any way. Jesus was just a normal human skilled in magic tricks. This god isn’t actually that interested in humans, they care more about pulsars, black holes etc.
Imagine you were in these worlds. Would the beings be what you called “god”? Well that’s just a question of how you define words. Where would your morality come from in these worlds?
A different way of going about this is to unpack what we mean by “god”. We can ask about morality in worlds that contains something similar, something that is arguably “god” and arguably not.
Polytheism. A whole bunch of gods that worked together to create the world. Between them they wrote the bible, koran and most other religious texts.
A god matching all the typical descriptions, spaceless timeless creator of life and earth.. Responsible for all the bible and jesus stuff. This god is made out of particles behaving under physical laws.
Perhaps this god is actually an alien that evolved billions of years ago, then used their advanced tech to travel to earth, create life and write the bible.
Maybe a ASI that is simulating the world as we know it. A team of human sociologists are instructing the AI, and told it to write some books and perform some miracles, to see how that effected society.
Stand off god. Spaceless timeless all knowing creator of the universe. Didn’t write the bible, or even inspire it. Not related to Jesus in any way. Jesus was just a normal human skilled in magic tricks. This god isn’t actually that interested in humans, they care more about pulsars, black holes etc.
Imagine you were in these worlds. Would the beings be what you called “god”? Well that’s just a question of how you define words. Where would your morality come from in these worlds?