Who created who?

That’s the sort of wacky question ATP asks. There’s no doubt that historical religion has fabricated many versions of God or gods, all more or less in our own imagined, perfected image—a perfection of human wisdom, power, love perhaps.

ATP is the search for a different God, one who fabricated us rather than vice-versa, created us in their own image. It’s an eclectic mishmash of philosophy, theoretical physics, psychology, evolutionary theory, educational theory, political theory, comparative religion, biblical exegesis, you name it – the one thing you most definitely have to assume from the outset is that God doesn’t exist, because if you assume they do, you’ve already assumed too much!

God in an evolutionary world

The key to it all is to adopt an evolutionary approach: no longer are we humans the self-centred centres of our own universe, special creations apart from all other life, rather we are one with all life, evolving interdependently – that’s where we’ll find our true significance, and, I’d hazard, where we might have the best chance of finding a God who really exists.