Subject: Re: Music, religion, etc.
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Date: Tue Jan 11 2000 - 08:16:47 EST
In a message dated 1/11/00 2:31:33 AM Eastern Standard Time, shok@netcom.com
writes:
> Sorry, but I have a real problem pulling the complexity that the mere
> existence of an all-powerful deity introduces out of the situation. If
> the Universe brought itself into existence in accordance with its own
> laws, the process getting from there to here may have many steps, but
> it's not very complex; certainly no more complex than those laws (which
> we are still not entirely sure of, but if Einstein and other major
> theoretical physicists are/were right, these "laws" might be a single
> "law," incredibly elegant and simple.)
>
> But if the Universe was brought into existence by an already-existing
> deity, then that deity must be explained in order to satisy me (the same
> way magic must be explained to satisfy me in the email scenario). And
> that adds an unbelievable amount of complexity. Heavy emphasis on
> "unbelievable."
>
> robbie
Nothing we have ever seen "brought itself into existence." Everything we see
happen appears to proceed from a cause. Postulating a First Cause is the
easiest thing to do. It is consistent with our experience and accounts for
all the facts.
Rather than what you're asserting, which seems an impossibility.
Jim
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