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God Became a Mirage

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God Became a Mirage
Edwardo Piet Away
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RE: God Became a Mirage
March 30, 2009 at 9:16 pm
(March 25, 2009 at 4:43 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: began by natural means and not supernatural means....
You're missing it EvF. If God made the spark that was the big bang then God created everything. You don't need any extra creator in this scenario.
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If the spark was the beginning then we don't need to postulate a God before it to 'create it'. If God can just 'be there' from the beginning then why not just say the 'spark' was there from the beginning instead and we wouldn't have to postulate the supernatural complexity of a "God". We wouldn't have to postulate an extra entity. In this case a particularly complex entity - an all powerful deity.

If the 'big bang' the initial simplicity of a 'spark' can just be there then it is more parsimonious, less complex and more probable to just postulate that than to postulate that AND also add a "God" on the end of it for what seems to be just for the sake of it.

A God complicates things. If it could begin with a 'spark' then there is no real need to add a "God" on the end to create the 'spark'. If God can just 'be there' from the beginning then so can a 'spark'. And a 'spark' is a lot more simple and parsimonious and a lot more probable than a "God".

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God Became a Mirage

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God Became a Mirage - by Edward - March 20, 2009 at 3:01 am
RE: God Became a Mirage - by leo-rcc - March 20, 2009 at 4:45 am
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Kyuuketsuki - March 20, 2009 at 5:25 am
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Edwardo Piet - March 20, 2009 at 6:34 am
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Edward - March 20, 2009 at 4:07 pm
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Edwardo Piet - March 21, 2009 at 6:12 am
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Tiberius - March 20, 2009 at 8:04 am
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Edwardo Piet - March 20, 2009 at 8:07 am
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Edward - March 20, 2009 at 3:26 pm
RE: God Became a Mirage - by leo-rcc - March 20, 2009 at 3:39 pm
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Kyuuketsuki - March 20, 2009 at 4:47 pm
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Edward - March 21, 2009 at 2:47 am
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Kyuuketsuki - March 21, 2009 at 11:17 am
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Edward - March 21, 2009 at 5:30 pm
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Demonaura - March 20, 2009 at 5:09 pm
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Demonaura - March 21, 2009 at 4:01 am
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Edward - March 21, 2009 at 4:54 pm
RE: God Became a Mirage - by leo-rcc - March 21, 2009 at 4:16 am
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Demonaura - March 21, 2009 at 5:24 am
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Edwardo Piet - March 21, 2009 at 5:27 pm
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Edward - March 22, 2009 at 3:04 pm
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Edwardo Piet - March 22, 2009 at 8:59 pm
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Tiberius - March 22, 2009 at 9:41 am
RE: God Became a Mirage - by fr0d0 - March 22, 2009 at 4:39 pm
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Kyuuketsuki - March 23, 2009 at 6:12 am
RE: God Became a Mirage - by fr0d0 - March 23, 2009 at 6:08 pm
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Kyuuketsuki - March 24, 2009 at 5:57 am
RE: God Became a Mirage - by fr0d0 - March 24, 2009 at 3:35 pm
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Kyuuketsuki - March 24, 2009 at 4:46 pm
RE: God Became a Mirage - by padraic - March 24, 2009 at 8:00 pm
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Edward - March 24, 2009 at 3:32 pm
RE: God Became a Mirage - by fr0d0 - March 24, 2009 at 3:51 pm
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Edwardo Piet - March 25, 2009 at 6:33 am
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Kyuuketsuki - March 25, 2009 at 7:59 am
RE: God Became a Mirage - by fr0d0 - March 25, 2009 at 4:43 pm
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Kyuuketsuki - March 25, 2009 at 4:59 pm
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Edwardo Piet - March 30, 2009 at 9:16 pm
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Edward - March 25, 2009 at 3:58 pm
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Edward - March 24, 2009 at 3:35 pm
RE: God Became a Mirage - by padraic - March 22, 2009 at 11:39 pm
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Edward - March 23, 2009 at 2:56 pm
RE: God Became a Mirage - by padraic - March 23, 2009 at 8:13 pm
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Demonaura - March 23, 2009 at 4:10 pm
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Edwardo Piet - March 24, 2009 at 7:39 am
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Demonaura - March 24, 2009 at 12:03 pm
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Edwardo Piet - March 24, 2009 at 1:29 pm
RE: God Became a Mirage - by fr0d0 - March 24, 2009 at 5:31 pm
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Kyuuketsuki - March 25, 2009 at 5:09 am
RE: God Became a Mirage - by Kyuuketsuki - April 2, 2009 at 6:24 am

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