(June 24, 2015 at 8:16 am)Drich Wrote:(June 23, 2015 at 9:38 am)Nope Wrote: Yes, a deity could work the way you describe; however, it would seem silly/cruel of him to expect that people worship him under those same conditions. In your analogy, the pianist isn't expecting the mice to worship him. You can make a case for a deist type of god that leaves his/her creation alone after setting things in motion but it is a big jump from there to the type of god described in Christianity.
What makes you think God has left us alone? In the story the third mouse stopped at discovering the mechanical workings of the paino, but as you well know there is much more to a piano making music. If the 3rd mouse kept looking, he would have discovered the keys and ultimately the hands that operated those keys... But again the point of the story was to illustrate that the mouse stopped looking once he could describe how the piano works.
We too stop looking in 'science' once we discover how the 'piano works.' but do not consider the being operating the keys. IF science always stops where the 3rd mouse stops then that would indicate a huge flaw in 'science' Again IF in fact there is a God.
You are interpreting the story with your particular religion in mind but the pianist isn't trying to do anything for the mice. He isn't guiding them or making rules for them and is probably not even aware that they are there. The pianist would probably hire an exterminator or buy a cat if he or she knew they had an infestation of rodents. That sounds like a deist version of a deity.
