(September 2, 2014 at 6:48 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote:(August 31, 2014 at 2:54 am)BlackMason Wrote: Pickup, am I right in assuming that you have changed the definition of god?
The only meaningful idea of God, the one that I intended to convey, and the only one that deserves thoughtful consideration IMHO, is the deistic god; the free, necessary, infinite--but otherwise as of yet misunderstood--being from which all spacetime, matter, and energy have their origin.
I'm surprised you'd describe such a god as "necessary". What is it that we understand so well as to be able to say what is or isn't necessary to account for reality as we find it?
The other thing I'd like to know is how you can be sure that a single god was accountable for space, time and energy/matter. How does anyone know that gods do not work from a basic substrate which includes all of these? But if you insist that deist gods created everything from an absolute, unqualitfied nothing .. what created them?
