(November 6, 2011 at 1:36 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: If we didn't describe God then we wouldn't be able to call him 'God'. Clearly God is defined. He has a nature that is also well defined.Assigning god to a class of beings called deities doesn't help your position. You are replacing one meaningless concept with another and you end up question begging. To prove your deity has the secondary attributes you want to project on to him you are assuming he has the primary attribute of (guess what) 'a deity', which (guess what) has the attributes you wish to project in the first place.
Primary attribute = deity
Only non theists are concerned with a pre cognitive 'thing'.
God is only meaningful in rational discourse.
Humans can be assigned to homo sapiens species as there is strong evidence of the existence of our species as well as the mechanisms by which we become part of reality. There is no such parallel with deities. Your rejoinder therefore fails to address this problem.
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence"...Doug McLeod.
