On 05 Sep 2012, at 17:34, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Bruno Marchal
God also created time, and anyway eternity is timeless,
not sure if spacless.
I can accept this as a rough sum up of some theory (= hypothesis; +
consequences), not as an explanation per se. As an explanation, it is
equivalent with "don't ask for more understanding", and you fall in
the authoritative trap.
Bruno
Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net
9/5/2012
Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him
so that everything could function."
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On 04 Sep 2012, at 18:42, John Clark wrote:
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 Roger Clough <rclo...@verizon.net> wrote:
> God created the human race.
And when God asks Himself the question "Why have I always existed,
why haven't I always not existed?" what answer in his omniscience
does He come up with?
The neoplatonist conception of God does not allow It to ask such a
question.
Nor does Arithmetical Truth.
God has no self-reference power at all, as this would make it
inconsistent.
Still defending the Christian God, aren't you?
Bruno
> God is the uncreated infinite intelligence
There was once a patent issued for a combination rat trap and
potato peeler and people laugh about that, but using the exact same
organ for both excretory and reproductive purposes does not seem
very intelligent to me either, much less infinitely intelligent.
And putting the blood vessels and nerves for the retina of the eye
in front not in the back so the light must pass through them to get
to the light sensitive cells also does not seem very smart; no
engineer in his right mind would place the gears to move the film
in a camera so that the light must pass through the gears before
hitting the film. That's not the sort of thing you'd expect God to
do, but it's exactly what you'd expect Evolution to do.
John K Clark
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