God Might Be Random

The assumption most people have about God is that She is personal, omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient. They also assume that God created the universe. As a result of the act of creation, the world is created out of the randomness within a controlled random system. This is quite a logical leap, however. Given that God is omni-everything, it is highly limiting to assume that She would act in ways of ordered thought consistent with human sensibilities. After all, the mind of God is by definition unknowable by mere mortals. Randomness as a motivation (or arbitrariness, if you will) is not out of the question. Fun/amusement might be that motivation as well, if one were to imprint God with a human desire.

Then comes the matter of being omni-everything. If that were true, the only thing that would be relatively unpredictable would be the presence of a random system ordered by simple rules. An ordered random system would be unpredictable, and result in the spontaneous generation of order as defined by the simple rules imprinted in the beginning. Life as an ordered system can be entirely possible within the framework of a random system, as the gross characteristics may appear ordered when the core of it is randomness. The particles within humans still move randomly, changing their trajectories, acceleration and velocity in accordance to the rules within the random system.

Since the generation of life may well be random, and not intended to serve some unknowable higher purpose, it is hubris to assume that God is personal. That is, God actually caring about humans at a personal level. For something that is omni-everything observing a controlled random system, it is unthinkable that one particle should be more interesting than another, or at one human be that much more special than another. In fact, the very event of a divine intervention might be the result of the creator of the system adjusting it to ensure that it remains in a state of randomness. After all, a random system moving towards order would become increasingly predictable and that is undesirable by virtue of the fact that an omniscient being/force would already know what would happen.

So why the thought of a personal Creator? Humans have needs. One of the needs is for affirmation or "love". Understandably, most humans simply do not have the energy to "love" everyone else. They can probably do that for a few fellows. What happens, then, when a human is isolated, or feels so due to circumstance? The logical thing to do would be to conceive the idea of something that has unconditional love for the average human, and thus provide a constant supply of "love". If there are instances of divine intervention observed by humans (or thought to be divine intervention), they can understandably be attributed human feelings and assumed (with much hubris) to be the personalized care of an omni-everything deity.

Of course, the consideration of a random God is not without flaws. The key assumption is of course that if there was a reason for creation (of the universe and not earth specifically), and that the reason is fun. This would again assume a human side to Her, and that is quite an assumption given that God isn't quite limited by the foibles of humanity. Moreover, it's understood in terms familiar to the limited cognitive abilities of mortal minds, and the real reason might be well beyond human language and cognition. However, if that were the case, as far as the human intellect is concerned, the reason for creation and everything about life might as well be random: It is ultimately unknowable.