(June 19, 2011 at 4:01 am)Stue Denim Wrote: A thought occurred to me whilst I was in the shower just now, was pondering on the deistic god.
If the creator deity is infinitely intelligent, or in the case of deism, at least hyper intelligent enough to create the universe, does the creator even need to create?
If the deity can conceive of an idea, can imagine it, can picture it, and is hyper/infinitely intelligent, what then is the difference between the god's imagination, and the actual resulting creation?
Once we pass a certain amount of intelligence (enough to know everything in this universe at any one time and extrapolate from there), the universe not being infinite and the deity being infinite (or at least smart enough) then I would propose that there is no need for an actual creation, it would already have happened in a mind of such magnitude.
A good question Stue. Suppose what we see as the universe are just results of a continual process. We do not see the process but rather see the results. We see the sun as the sun. But suppose it really is a point in a cyclical process we experience as coming into being and finally dying.
Does the absolute need what we see as the finished product like a sun or rather the process of existence that attaches galaxies to suns and suns to planets as a functioning machine? If the process is necessary, more than imagination is needed.
