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God's motivation

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09-14-2011 4:14 PM 		Reply to: Message 14 by rueh
09-14-2011 3:41 PM

Dr. Adequate writes:
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Well, what functions could the universe serve? It is not a toaster or a hatrack or a lawnmower or something else with an obvious function.
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How would we know? Can we, from our limited perspective of the universe really rule out that the universe has no function? Would a quark that is part of a toaster know that it is not part of a toaster?
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Well to be fair, he did say an obvious function...
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09-15-2011 10:02 AM 		Reply to: Message 18 by rueh
09-15-2011 8:26 AM

True he did say that. I just don't think that we can rule out that God's motivation for creation could be to create a universe with a function, just because that function is not obvious. It's not obvious to the cog in a machine that it is part of the machine.
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That's a fair point, but I haven't seen anyone saying otherwise.
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DA even went on to speculate some possibilities:
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(1) It's an experiment...
(2) It's an ornament...
(3) It's a form of reality TV...
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