God's Debris
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Related e |
Featured: |
God's Debris: A Thought Experiment is a 2001 novella by Dilbert creator Scott Adams.
God's Debris espouses 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.
The introduction disclaims any personal views held by the author, "The opinions and philosophies expressed by the characters are not my own, except by coincidence in a few spots not worth mentioning".
[edit]
See also
- The Religion War, the follow-up to God's Debris
- Brahman
- Advaita Vedanta
- The Footprints of God, novel written by author Greg Iles.
- Eureka: A Prose Poem, work by Edgar Allan Poe.
- The Last Question, short story by author Isaac Asimov.
- God becomes the Universe
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "God's Debris" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.