(May 15, 2012 at 12:12 pm)NoMoreFaith Wrote: The question itself is quite serious though: If God is neither detached from natural incidents, nor part of them, [then] WHERE is he?
"Where" is a spatial question that is intelligible only in the context of spatial coordinates. Given that God created and upholds this space-time manifold, it follows that he transcends it (or exists independent of it); how, then, is it meaningful to ask specifically "where" God is? (Hint: The question is meaningless.) The very reason why God is omnipresent or immanent throughout all space and time is because he is not existentially part of creation.
(May 15, 2012 at 12:12 pm)NoMoreFaith Wrote: At least atheists acknowledge when they are doing so and appeal to be excused, rather than being blind to the idea an appeal was made at all.
You did. Here. This time. But you peruse these forums just as I do; you know how pervasive the appeals to emotional arguments are (e.g., hand-wringing about all teh baybeez) and that there is almost never that acknowledgment. But it is to be expected: if your argument has no logical punch, deflect using an emotional one.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)