RE: Question for Deists and Agnostics
November 19, 2013 at 11:57 am
(This post was last modified: November 19, 2013 at 11:57 am by Darkstar.)
(November 19, 2013 at 11:44 am)themonkeyman Wrote: Thing is this has made me think that an Intelligent Being may have designed the Universe so I have a question for Deists How can you Reconcile that a God may exist but he is also not the God of the Old Testament.I am not a deist, but I think I can answer your question. The god of the OT is credited with a lot more than just creating the universe, including things that are generally understood to be natural. Considering the number of gods that people claim (and have claimed) to exist, a deistic god seems far more likely because deism only needs to defend the claim that some sort of god created the universe. However, even if a prime mover were necessary (which it may not be), there is no reason it would have to be an intelligent one.
Also, goddidit is generally a bad answer to something humans don't understand. Links:
Argument from ignorance
God of the gaps
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
