You do realise that saying "this Universe is a being and that being is God" is pointless in actually proving that God exists, right?
If you define God as something that actually exists, and then claim that God exists, you haven't actually proven anything. All you have done is define words in your favour. Please demonstrate that a DEITY actually exists, instead of merely CLAIMING it.
And your argument that "we can't know God doesn't exist because it is beyond the scope of our knowledge" is arguing from ignorance, which is a logical fallacy. Simply replace "God" with anything else and you'll see why it doesn't make sense. No one believes anything just because it COULD exist, and we haven't even demonstrated that it's possible that a god exists. We haven't demonstrated that it's impossible either, but it does not therefore follow that it is.
Also, if God is "separate to the Universe", then that to me is essentially synonymous with non-existence. Existence is DEFINED as having some kind of manifestation in the physical universe. If not, it's only a concept.
If you define God as something that actually exists, and then claim that God exists, you haven't actually proven anything. All you have done is define words in your favour. Please demonstrate that a DEITY actually exists, instead of merely CLAIMING it.
And your argument that "we can't know God doesn't exist because it is beyond the scope of our knowledge" is arguing from ignorance, which is a logical fallacy. Simply replace "God" with anything else and you'll see why it doesn't make sense. No one believes anything just because it COULD exist, and we haven't even demonstrated that it's possible that a god exists. We haven't demonstrated that it's impossible either, but it does not therefore follow that it is.
Also, if God is "separate to the Universe", then that to me is essentially synonymous with non-existence. Existence is DEFINED as having some kind of manifestation in the physical universe. If not, it's only a concept.
"Faith is the excuse people give when they have no evidence."
- Matt Dillahunty.
- Matt Dillahunty.
