(December 5, 2022 at 11:15 pm)Objectivist Wrote: I want to know what evidence they have for this double meaning. When I pick up a piece of rhyolite in my backyard, what evidence or reason is there to suppose that it was wished into existence by a supernatural consciousness? Can the creationist provide a single example of something being created out of nothing by conscious will alone? If they can't then they have no rational warrant to use the concept 'create' as they do.
According to their own scripture the conditions at the beginning of the universe were thus: It was dark, there was nothing but water everywhere, and God’s spirit moved around in it. It doesn’t say that God created the water, for all we know it the water is “co-eternal” with God. Ex nihilo creation is an extra-Biblical tradition.
