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NOMA and Deism vs. the Material World

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NOMA and Deism vs. the Material World
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RE: NOMA and Deism vs. the Material World
September 5, 2013 at 9:25 pm
(September 5, 2013 at 7:35 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Deism strikes me as a tremendous cop-out. People WANT there to be a Creator, but they simply and ad hoc define said Creator out of any rational discussion.

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Where is the ad hoc-ness?
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RE: NOMA and Deism vs. the Material World
September 7, 2013 at 12:07 am (This post was last modified: September 7, 2013 at 12:09 am by Michael Schubert.)
(September 5, 2013 at 7:35 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Deism strikes me as a tremendous cop-out. People WANT there to be a Creator, but they simply and ad hoc define said Creator out of any rational discussion.

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It's the god-of-the-gaps fallacy.
(September 5, 2013 at 9:25 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: Where is the ad hoc-ness?

Where they say "God did it". They can't find any explanation other than "it must have been God".
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