I'm with !@#$%! on this: I think that since there's no way for the intellect to define what god (perhaps
Brahman would be a better word), so why bother trying to have an intellectual conversation about such things? I suppose that when you "strip down" the word into what it really means, or perhaps what it
could mean in terms of science, logic, etc. than nobody can really argue with you that some force exists that started turning the wheel of creation, and therefore can be seen as the sum of all forces that exist
inside creation (if the singularity that existed before the big bang was still, then motion was the creator, no?). Now... what this "god"--again I hate to use the term because it gets tangled up with deities and all that, and those are whole 'nother story entirely--let me start over. What does "god" have to do with our day to day lives? It is obviously
there because its everywhere, but its role in our lives is nonexistant. We may recognize that it created the potential energy that eventually put the right particles in the right place at the right time to forge single celled organisms from the furnace of the Earth which would eventually evolve into the massive collections of cells that is a hungover writer-wannabe typing some long spiel about God on an internet message board, but why all of this happened, how it happened, whodunnit, whatever, isn't worth worrying about. I think the only thing one needs to worry about, spiritually thinking, is one's own humanity. We're all a part of creation, but we can distinguish ourselves from the rest because we have reached a level of cognition where our free will is capable of trumping every one of our instinctive urges. This means that, with practice, we can eliminate those of our instincts (I'm speaking mostly about emotions here, which is the primary area of human thought that is still considered to be 100% instinctual, an idea that I disagree with stongly) which, although they were necessary for survival at one point in time (think fear, agression, greed, etc), are capable of creating negative consequences for other sentient beings and unhapiness or dissatisfaction for ourselves. So instead of thinking about a higher power which is there and it isn't there and carrying on with that trip until the end of eternity, I'm content to do my best to elminate unnecessary suffering from my life and the lives of others. Anyway...........