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Can Consciousness Best Be Explained by God's Existence?
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RE: Can Consciousness Best Be Explained by God's Existence?
(March 30, 2014 at 3:39 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:
(March 30, 2014 at 12:19 am)whateverist Wrote: I agree with what Rasetsu said, except that I'd go further (probably too far) and add that explaining anything by way of something itself unexplainable just won't work. I mean it really isn't an explanation at all. Unless you start with knowledge of gods -which I certainly don't have- they can't very well shed any light on anything.

I've always felt -from my atheist point of view- that to say that god is the cause of anything is tantamount to admitting the problem is beyond you. "God only knows." An explanation should provide a footing for something not yet understood in that with which we are more familiar. 'God' is too controversial to provide that foundation.
I disagree. Because the role of God is fundamental not secondary.

When one gets the same result postulating that "magic is fundamental" in place of "God is fundamental," it becomes clear that A) the statement is meaningless and B) it (magic or God in this case) tells us nothing about what is supposedly fundamental.
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RE: Can Consciousness Best Be Explained by God's Existence? - by Mudhammam - March 30, 2014 at 4:06 pm

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