(May 10, 2013 at 5:05 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I have no issue with deism or deists, personally. However, I see no practical difference in how I would personally live my live with or without knowledge or belief in a deistic god. With our current understanding of reality, god-as-first-cause seems to me to be unprovable and unfalsifiable, and it's not clear that such a being is necessarily necessary.
There doesn't have to be a first cause in the first place that never was less than all the placier place all over the place. Saukraut.
Quote:If a first cause turns out to be necessary (and this is not clearly the case, IMO), if someone wishes to call it "god", it's of no concern to me. How one could claim to know anything about such a being is beyond our capabilities (IMO) at present.
Same way they clam to know anything else
Quote:I'm content to say "I don't know" for now. Perhaps that will change.
And hopefully when it does, we find that the metaphysical isn't all that difficult to combat... for asurely awouldly awarly abely.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
