>> Suppose you were god. Would you make it obvious that there is a god or

>> would you hide it?

>I had never thought about it, and the question seems unrelated to

>the particular reasons I am an atheist.

>However, thinking about it, I guess it would depend whether or not

>I was interested in having some kind of relationship with the people

>I created. If so, no I would not hide.

For those interested in following up this line of argument, the book “Superior beings: If they exist, how would we know?” by Steven Brams tries to look at the problem from the point of view of the theory of games. He looks at how we might define omniscience, omnipotence, immortality and incomprehensibility from the mathematical point of view. Does God want people to believe in the face of the absence of direct evidence? Does God want to remain hidden? …

>On the other hand, if we speculate that God is hiding for some

>ineffable reason, and that God is omnipotent, then people who

>think they have found God are surely mistaken.

>Cheers — Chris

Ken Smith — Dr Ken Smith – Christian, husband, retired mathematician, skeptic, … `I am no more surprised or distressed at the limitation of science when faced with this great problem of creation than I am at the limitation of the spectroscope in describing the radiance of a sunset,’ A. C. B. Lovell