(September 4, 2012 at 8:59 am)stephenmills1000 Wrote: Would you agree then that a conscious being able to create the universe, must necessarily have greater power and knowledge than that within the universe which would otherwise be or would be the most powerful and/or most knowledgable?
This... just this... is reason enough to ditch your theism.
If the universe can't possibly be explained without a creator... how can something more complex than the universe escape that same necessity?
It can't. Accept that, and welcome to atheism.
Y'welcome.



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