(January 23, 2010 at 4:33 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: You don't have to know what a hand is to make the definition. You have a particular shape quite like nothing else. You have this incomplete idea of God that you're trying to tie down, and this is just a piece of the puzzle.
We don't have living examples of dinosaurs but that doesn't stop us approximating how they might look and act.
If we assume that God created the universe/ was the instigator/ first cause... then all that could emanate from God is part of God. In this assumption, God is in everything and is everywhere (the Christian viewpoint). You assume not, I assume so. You cannot categorically say that I am wrong, therefore everything existent could be part of God and evidence.
You cannot know, and neither can I.
Yes Frodo, If we assume that God created the universe.
There is no evidence that this is the case and pointing at the universe and saying that it is
the evidence is not convincing, not of Abrahams God anyway.
Can you entertain the idea of a first cause that is not biblical?
If you're not supposed to ride faster than your guardian angel can fly then mine had better get a bloody SR-71.