(August 6, 2014 at 10:42 am)orangebox21 Wrote:(August 5, 2014 at 2:45 pm)Rhythm Wrote: The idea that a god lazily pointed to a naturally occurring thing that requires no godly sauce as a sign that he would not do again what he never did in the first place, is...to me, absurdYou're not maintaining logical consistency. If God created the properties of light, water, and the water cycle, then He created the rainbow. In other words, if He had created water, light, and the water cycle with drastically different properties then rainbows wouldn't be naturally occurring (they wouldn't exist). He then pointed to something He created, not to a 'naturally occurring thing that requires no godly sauce' as you have put it.
Did god intend the rainbow? Perhaps it was the natural fall out of his having intended light and water. We read in the bible about how god said an incantation to create light. Must he have said the unrecorded incantation "let there be shadows", or were these unintended consequences?
I have to say this conversation feels pretty ridiculous. The very idea that every minute detail of the universe represented a micromanaged intention of a OCD god gives me the lulz.
