(November 28, 2009 at 12:53 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Ah thanks yeah - IMO I'm a looker!Potential seems another word for incompleteness and imperfection to me.
We assume that if there were a starting point, that it would be pure potential. Potential is all dynamism.
Would you agree that we observe things produced to be less than what created them, and not more? Or do you believe the opposite? Is there any evidence either way?
Is there any sense in comparing the painter with the painting?
Surely the painter is not very good at being a painting.
Also, whatever created the universe, the universe does not seem to get lesser by time. Indeed observation shows that we live in a runaway universe getting bigger all the time.
What seriously is in the way of any serious discussion of this question is a definition of perfection itself. It isn't by any chance a tautology for your god, is it?
"I'm like a rabbit suddenly trapped, in the blinding headlights of vacuous crap" - Tim Minchin in "Storm"
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0