RE: If there is a creator, so what?
March 13, 2015 at 7:42 pm
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2015 at 7:59 pm by Pizza.)
(March 11, 2015 at 8:40 am)robvalue Wrote: Oh sure, yeah. You make good points. But I'm talking about making changes in my behaviour to actually allow for this creator. Even if I believed there was one, I have no way to communicate with it, or any reason to think it cares what I am doing. If I also believed it was actually doing anything to interact, that would be cause for concern. But just the existence of a creator doesn't lead to this without further justification and evidence.There's the rub: to prove they know what a god would or wouldn't do.
Arguments like the Kalam at best take you to a deistic God, and I'm saying even if I allow these arguments, it doesn't get to the point of anything I can actually interact with. So just trying to convince me there is "something up there" is really pointless, unless you can demonstrate you have some way of actually knowing something about it. Of course christians would try and just switch in their god and hope I don't notice. That needs its own justification, for which I see none.
Why assume a god would communicate with humans through scriptures?
Why assume a god would communicate with humans at all?
I've never heard a non-question begging reply from apologists.
@Lek, vague verses don't count as predictions.
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