Re: Ool - out at first base?

On Thu, 19 Dec 2024 08:05:50 -0800, erik simpson
<eastside.erik@gmail.com> wrote:
 

On 12/18/24 10:17 PM, Vincent Maycock wrote:

On Thu, 19 Dec 2024 14:10:27 +1100, MarkE <me22over7@gmail.com> wrote:
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God is eternally preexisting, nonmaterial, above and beyond time,
matter, energy, but creating and controlling these.

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If he's beyond time, on what stage or background does he do anything?
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God conceived of all created things before they came into being.

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   How could we test this claim?
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God spoke and there was...spacetime, matter, energy.

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More likely those things have just always existed, the same as this
supposed god called God that you're talking about.
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God created the initial low entropy state of the universe.

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Could it have been the Flying Spaghetti Monster that created this low
entropy start for the universe?
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God designed physics, the periodic table, etc, as building blocks
capable of being fashioned into all created things.

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What about those useless high-mass elements found further on in the
periodic table?
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God designed all living things and spoke them into being,

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Would it be possible to catch God in the act of speaking things into
being?
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either
directly, or indirectly through innate capacity for change and adaptation.

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How does this indirect creation relate to universal common descent of
all living things?
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Etc.

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Like what?
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It'd be easy to catch God in the act.  All you is a critter cam.

 Right.  Suddenly the Christian god is shy!