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jar Member (Idle past 415 days)  Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
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jar Member (Idle past 415 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
I could just point you to...
There are Jews in the world, there are Buddhists, there are Hindus and Mormons and then there are those that follow Mohammed -but- I've never been one of them. I am a Roman Catholic and have been since before I was born, and the one thing they say about Catholics is they'll take you as soon as you're warm. You don't have to be a six-footer. You don't have to have a great brain. You don't have to have any clothes on, you're a Catholic the moment dad came ...Because...  ...but I wont. you ask...
What is the nature of the universe that you would require the extra addition of a God such that no amount of probing or investigation will reveal Him and yet at the same time inflict on a good number of people the serious insistence from them of Him being real and therefore affecting physical responses in them? Well, they's them's and I'm me's. I happpen to believe that there is a GOD. By definition, that GOD is something that has certain characteristics. IMHO, among those are that he created the rules that govern what has happened at the most basic level. Since all that we can see and measure (including ourselves and the very universe we have descerned) are merely the products of those basic rules, we cannot see beyond that point where those rules first came into existence. I do think that there may well be miracles that we can point to, but they are few and usually unmentioned. One such example is Bread. But I do not see GOD molding the universe as he sees fit. At the most, as in the case of Bread, he may on occasion give it a nudge. Nudge...nudge...eh? Aslan is not a Tame Lion
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jar Member (Idle past 415 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
We've been over that and I doubt you'll like my answers any more this time than last time or the time before.
To create the "rules" {whatever those are!} what means would He use to implement them? Well, we are still learning the rules. Natural Selection is one. Evolution is another. As we learn more we get a better glimpse of what the rules are. One hundred fifty years ago I would have said it was gravity, light and electromagnitism. Seventy years ago I would have added the Strong and Weak Nuclear forces. General Relativity appeared to be one. Who knows, as we learn more about the rules, IMHO, we will simply find that the finger of GOD wrote with a finer hand than we ever imagined. My bet is that as we learn more about Strings and Branes we will find that they are still but gross representations of what HE wrote. And I don't know what means HE used to implement them. HE thought them is as good at the moment as anything else.
As a belief in God must in some sense arouse in you an impression of His existence I am asking you to explain how the {bbodily(sic) sensation of the impression is instilled within yourself without physical means being implemented by God? My Impression of GOD is simply that. It is internal and no more instilled in me by outside force than any other idea, knowledge or belief. It is the result of observation and reason. Aslan is not a Tame Lion
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