RE: The Case for Theism
March 19, 2013 at 3:51 pm
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2013 at 3:54 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 19, 2013 at 3:32 pm)Drew_2013 Wrote: Which explanation is more magical? The explanation that mindless, lifeless forces minus any plan or intent produced a universe that resulted in something unlike itself sentient life or it was the result of planning and design?Sigh. Seeing as your planning and design involves magic....and seeing as we can't find any of this planning or design...then your planning and design would be the more magical explanation (in addition to being horrendously devoid of any facts or evidence).
-You are not unlike the environment which spawned you.
-"Mindless" would explain the actions of a creative god as competently as it explains the tumbling blocks of a natural chain of causality. Sure, we could invoke malice or incompetence, but mindlessness doesn't require any extraneous assumptions about our extraneous assumption.
-Your god would qualify as a lifeless force (but please, please disagree with me on this one.....).
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