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Question for deists: Why is there a Creator?
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RE: Question for deists: why is there a Creator?
Quote:What you said is good.

Always nice to hear it from someone else Big Grin

Quote:Though perhaps I did not express myself correctly: you hear one saying that God created the universe and became the universe, you hear other that says that God created the universe but is incapable of interfering in the creatures' lives, you hear other that believes in a God who performs miracles every day in his life, you hear other that says that there are a lot of gods that need to be worshiped, and you hear others that say that no god exists (I skipped some, and perhaps I don't know all beliefs). Now you pick one and ask yourself "is that wise or insane?". How can you judge that? Even the most insane man sees his own beliefs to be true and evident and see others' as being insane or stupid or something.

Ah, well as an outside observer, with my fallible sense and logic, I judge how wise or sane people are are by

A) is there evidence/logical underpinning for their claim/assertion?
Evidence supporting it
No evidence for it,
Sound logic that would suggest it
or evidence and logic to the contrary...

and B) How convinced are they?
Completely,
room for doubt,
tentative...

... (And of course things like how good is that evidence, what evidence do they have/ were they exposed to...)

That's how I judge people's wisdom, sanity & knowledge.

The theistic god concepts have evidence to the contrary and are logically unsound. The deistic idea's have no evidence for or against, they fit neatly into the god gap and stay there, making belief in them a whole lot more sane than belief in a theistic god. That's the problem with the theistic gods, they poke their heads out of the gap and into a logical and evidentiary guillotine.

I find questioning my own ability to judge sanity/wisdom to at least some degree of accuracy is a sure way to lose all sanity.
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RE: Question for deists: why is there a Creator? - by Darth - June 11, 2011 at 7:36 am

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