(August 13, 2015 at 5:11 pm)Neimenovic Wrote: Sure. But that 'simplest answer' is not simple at all. It completely ignores the problem of infinite regress and emergent complexity, and uses special pleading. Do not multiply entities. This hypothesis raises more questions that it answers.
To me at least, it seems like an enormous leap. What exactly is your reasoning that led you from first cause/'a creator' to a deistic deity, to then a theistic god, to then yahweh and then christian yahweh and finally to your denomination and personal version of yahweh?
Because to me it is a one big unjustified non sequitur.
I fully understand where you are coming from on that and that exact progression you mention is not something simple and would create a very long response to which I currently don't have time to do, but I'm not opposed to offering.
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