RE: If there is a creator, so what?
November 17, 2016 at 8:18 am
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2016 at 8:29 am by The Grand Nudger.)
To be fair, that's not their -entire- conceptualization of god. It's simply an example of what preeminant catholic thinkers proposed was knowable about the fundamentally unknowable. What you could conclude about god by reason, and without revelation. It wasn't even intended as an argument for gods existence. Subsequent believers have simply taken it up as-such. Someone gave a pretty fair description of it in this thread or some other, as the ascribing -to- god attributes that would be necessary, as the best solution to a tough problem. The problem was reconciling theology with the sciences (then known, not science like we think of it today) in the wake of the rediscovery of the philosophical tradition. In essence, to create a philosophical theology.
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