(September 9, 2019 at 12:37 pm)Belaqua Wrote: Well... Throughout much of their work they address the issues of what a God (or whatever term they have for it) would be like. It's not like there's a single page I can point to. It's kind of a big deal for them. And as far as I know all of them take it as true that to be God means being immaterial and uncreated. So not made of anything.
Quote:Either logic is made of physics or made of something we have no understanding of/something meaningless to us.
If we define logic as the reasoning conducted or assessed according to strict principles of validity, and physics as the branch of human inquiry which studies the nature and properties of matter and energy...
I don't see how we can say logic is "made of" physics. If anything the opposite would be nearer to the truth, since logic is one of the tools we need when we practice physics.
If something as important as logic can be "made of" something, and we have no understanding of what it's made of, then we seem to be lacking some pretty fundamental information.
But it's possible that I'm just reading you all wrong. To me, "made of" refers to a raw material, as chairs are made of wood; wine is made from grapes. It also seems to imply a maker, since it has the word "made" -- but that may be just a manner of speech -- I guess we could say that trees are made of wood, even though there was no maker.
I came up with one: "God did not create that from which he is made. So God did not create everything".
Well, in other words, perhaps logic and God are made of nothing (but nothing means something we have no understanding of.)