# Does God have dimensions? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 12, 2007, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-have-dimensions/426120 "2007-11-12T12:07:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![9thFloor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/b487fb/32.png) [@9thFloor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/9thFloor)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2007, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-have-dimensions/426120/41 "2007-11-17T05:04:26Z")
[QUOTE=begbert2] Not at all. Civility requires that we treat the reasonable person _presenting_ the idea with respect. An open mind requires that we listen to the presented idea and assess it’s value objectively and without prior bias. Nothing whatsoever requires me to respect a stupid idea, once I’ve done a reasonable job of assessing it with an open mind and have determined that it’s stupid or incorrect. [/QUOTE] Yeah, well saying ‘you pulled that idea out of your ass’ pretty much goes beyond the idea and over to the reasonable person. I agree though; ideas can and should be tightly argued without being due any respect just for their existence that goes beyond that due the person. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2007, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-have-dimensions/426120/42 "2007-11-17T05:10:40Z")
[God has eight dimensions . . . or 57 . . . or 248 . . . it’s a bit confusing.](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2007/11/14/scisurf114.xml) > [@](#): > > Lisi’s inspiration lies in the most elegant and intricate shape known to mathematics, called E8 - a complex, eight-dimensional mathematical pattern with 248 points first found in 1887, but only fully understood by mathematicians this year after workings, that, if written out in tiny print, would cover an area the size of Manhattan. > > E8 encapsulates the symmetries of a geometric object that is 57-dimensional and is itself is 248-dimensional. Lisi says “I think our universe is this beautiful shape.” ---
**Author:** ![9thFloor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/b487fb/32.png) [@9thFloor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/9thFloor)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2007, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-have-dimensions/426120/43 "2007-11-17T06:07:43Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] [God has eight dimensions . . . or 57 . . . or 248 . . . it’s a bit confusing.](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2007/11/14/scisurf114.xml) [/QUOTE] Holy crap, my head exploded. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2007, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-have-dimensions/426120/44 "2007-11-17T13:38:24Z")
[QUOTE=9thFloor] Yeah, well saying ‘you pulled that idea out of your ass’ pretty much goes beyond the idea and over to the reasonable person. I agree though; ideas can and should be tightly argued without being due any respect just for their existence that goes beyond that due the person. [/QUOTE] Someone implied you pulled an idea out of your nether regions? Who? When? Where? ---
**Author:** ![9thFloor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/b487fb/32.png) [@9thFloor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/9thFloor)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-have-dimensions/426120/45 "2007-11-18T11:36:34Z")
[QUOTE=Paul in Saudi] Someone implied you pulled an idea out of your nether regions? Who? When? Where? [/QUOTE] “If you extrapolate from the prior Bunkus, you’ll find that all the equalities and comparative amounts are all Bunkus, which makes a certain amount of sense since you pulled all of them out of thin air (or maybe some orfice of yours).” - begbert2, ‘God is not great’ thread, [#86](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9185039&postcount=75) ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-have-dimensions/426120/46 "2007-11-18T12:28:06Z")
So did someone imply you were thinking below the belt? ---
**Author:** ![Mushbrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@Mushbrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mushbrain)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-have-dimensions/426120/47 "2007-11-18T12:32:30Z")
We’re inward. God is external to us. That means we must see him from the inside. And he’s showing his back. Wait… did God just Goatse us? ---
**Author:** ![monavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@monavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monavis)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-have-dimensions/426120/48 "2007-11-18T12:47:49Z")
[QUOTE=Mushbrain] We’re inward. God is external to us. That means we must see him from the inside. And he’s showing his back. Wait… did God just Goatse us? [/QUOTE] I take it that you are joking,you couln’t see bsck ot fron from the inside! Monavis ---
**Author:** ![monavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@monavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monavis)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-have-dimensions/426120/49 "2007-11-18T12:49:29Z")
[QUOTE=Mushbrain] We’re inward. God is external to us. That means we must see him from the inside. And he’s showing his back. Wait… did God just Goatse us? [/QUOTE] I take it that you are joking,you couln’t see the back from the inside! Monavis ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-have-dimensions/426120/50 "2007-11-18T12:51:06Z")
One must admit it ties all the evidence into one neat package. ---
**Author:** ![Mushbrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@Mushbrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mushbrain)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-have-dimensions/426120/51 "2007-11-18T13:47:49Z")
[QUOTE=monavis] I take it that you are joking,you couln’t see the back from the inside! [/QUOTE] Of course. Thus, it’s proof that our universe can only be situated _inside his backside_. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-have-dimensions/426120/52 "2007-11-18T14:37:40Z")
So that would explain lawyers. ---
**Author:** ![Zedfoil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zedfoil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zedfoil)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-have-dimensions/426120/53 "2007-11-25T01:33:42Z")
One of the Ten Commandments says make no graven images of God. I don’t take that’s imperious; I think it’s just the truth. Any image of God would be insufficient. Weak example: can you take a 386-class computer from about the year 1990 with a 100 meg hard drive and maybe 4 meg of ram and load Vista on it? Hard drive isn’t big enough, ram not big enough even for the install program to run. It just wouldn’t work. I think that’s why it’s impossible to comprehend God. I think God is beyond everything. I understand the Koran says that God is outside the world, but, respectfully even that statement is a limit and therefore possibly wrong. ---
**Author:** ![monavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@monavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monavis)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-have-dimensions/426120/54 "2007-11-25T13:19:32Z")
[QUOTE=Zedfoil] One of the Ten Commandments says make no graven images of God. I don’t take that’s imperious; I think it’s just the truth. Any image of God would be insufficient. Weak example: can you take a 386-class computer from about the year 1990 with a 100 meg hard drive and maybe 4 meg of ram and load Vista on it? Hard drive isn’t big enough, ram not big enough even for the install program to run. It just wouldn’t work. I think that’s why it’s impossible to comprehend God. I think God is beyond everything. I understand the Koran says that God is outside the world, but, respectfully even that statement is a limit and therefore possibly wrong. [/QUOTE] If God is pure spirit He would be invisible and there fore it would be impossible to make an image of Him. Thousands of years ago people thought of God as a thing that one could see, hence the Golden Calf. Now there are many people who have a different idea of what they think God is, It is a choice one makes for one self. I believe it was Hammurabi who first decided there could only be one God Or a God above all others,he also had a code like the 10 commandments. Monavis ---
**Author:** ![I\_m\_No\_Saint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/977dab/32.png) [@I\_m\_No\_Saint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_m_No_Saint)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-have-dimensions/426120/55 "2007-11-26T01:34:50Z")
Anyone read **Towing Jehovah**? God dies and falls into the ocean… Anyone? Hello? Ah well…in the book he’s around two miles tall. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-god-have-dimensions/426120.md?page=2)