(May 21, 2011 at 2:20 pm)Zenith Wrote: I'm just curios about deists' arguments for the existence of a Creator.
And, hopefully it does not sound foolish: why should there be only one creator?
hopefully this is the right place to post this thread...
The deistic worldview is actually rather similar to the atheistic view (yes, I know that atheism is simply the lack of belief, but I'm referring to the common consensus here) with regards to science and nature within the universe. The only difference is that deism solves the problem of the universe coming into existence by the addition of an intelligent cause that is immune to regress, while that of atheism is one that is based on a non-intelligent cause (or some others, who do not even see the need for a cause).
In my opinion, postulating a creator that is far more complex than the universe itself, which we have set out to explain in the first place, simply compounds the problem. Yes, it may fit all logical observation, but the deistic god hypothesis is still inelegant when it fits into the big picture.
