Small post Clarifying a common fallacy here.

[Edwardo Piet]

I agree Leo.

And if God isn't complex and for example he's something like the big bang singularity - then that's not really God now is it? And to use God as a metaphor for the big bang or some kind of very simple might be very confusing!

The creator of the universe is surely very complex indeed. Right from the start 'God' would have to be capable of designing it! And all its complexity! And unknowing it.

I mean talk about how smart he would have to be. How big his brain (whatever its made out of).

And if he's just DEFINED outside of material and he can be really simple no matter what - then that of course is very unparsimonious and way too big an assumption to make. Its against parsimony to just go about postulating too many entities, as you are aware DD.

I mean if the universe at the start is a very simple singularity. Then yeah, God could relatively be simple to CREATE something that is ALSO very simple I think.

But he'd still have to be a lot more complex and improbable relative to his creation - even if he's very simple because the universe started very simple and just expanded and developed from there I think.

Thoughts?

EvF