Hi Meldinoor,
So, if you had to make these assumptions, what reasons do you see for the Creator to choose gradual naturalistic processes, as opposed to an undeniably divine creation event?
I'm an atheist, but I've always thought that a good reason for "God" (if such a word actually means something) to use naturalistic processes would be so only intelligent beings with a highly evolved sense of curiosity can finally "find him," so to speak.
By pushing said intelligent creatures to find natural explanations to phenomena, "God" is removing the trivial things attributed to him, and perhaps leading these intelligent creautres to find "him" in the most complex, and yet unknown, regions of reality.
A "God" like this would find it pathetic to know that people still thought "he" was responsible for an eclipse. I also feel this type of "God" would find creationists' arguments about the first cellular life and the Big Bang pathetic as well - (The Big Bang and first cellular life being our days eclipse)
A "God" like that would use naturalistic processes because that way he would insure that only curious, intelligent, hopefully less aggressive and more humain, creatures, such as what I hope humans one day evolve to, can finally "know" what it/god/unknown force in the universe
really is.
* I'd like to note as an example of my position on the
Pseudo-thread: Whether I
happen to be right about this "unknown force," the
concept I just gave you about God was
completely made up in my mind. Even
if I happen to have nailed it right on the head, and that's exactly what God is, what I just gave as a description is completely imagined... and can be rejected on that basis alone. I can honestly say that I have no idea what I'm trying to describe when I describe a "God".
- Oni
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