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We humans are strange creatures. We create many versions of God with all manner of ridiculous and absurd attributes and stories and then some of us pretend that by refuting those versions and stories we refute the existence of God. It is beyond silly. God may be many things but it is unlikely that we know anything about them so it is preposterous to proclaim what God MUST be to qualify as God. At a bare minimum God simply needs to be responsible for our existence and the existence of everything else. Any other attributes would be superfluous.
Yet if parents have "free-will" then a separate entity God cannot be "responsible" for the existence of a fetus unless it interferes during their coitus, thus preventing all of the other "possible people" that could have formed.
Yet if parents have "free-will" then a separate entity God cannot be "responsible" for the existence of a fetus unless it interferes during their coitus, thus preventing all of the other "possible people" that could have formed.
Being responsible for the EXISTENCE of everything and the processes that constrain them in no way requires that anything is micro-managed.
Being responsible for the EXISTENCE of everything and the processes that constrain them in no way requires that anything is micro-managed.
The constraint is part of the micro-managing. But regardless,
What I was pointing out was that you said,
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[...snip...] At a bare minimum God simply needs to be responsible for our existence and the existence of everything else. Any other attributes would be superfluous.
However, each separate subcategory of causality is caused directly by the previous, and only indirectly by the original cause or the second cause after that.
In most Abrahamic religions, implicitly, God only has "indirect" responsibility for the creation of an ordered substance (e.g. a person from a mass of cells that other person carried and decided upon actions that led to that existence). So if a god has free-will, and a human has free-will, both are agents of "responsibility for existence." One is directly responsible for "our existence" in the semantic term of "literally us, as specific humans that grow from two-cells to single cell to multicellular" (i.e. our parents), and one (the one in the Deist "role" sense) would be indirectly responsible.
And yes, I am aware that explicitly they (the Abrahamists) want to feel that a perfect infallible entity is the direct cause of themselves in similitude and above all other natural beings.
Otherwise, it would be an intervening Theist entity involved in the coitus deeply and superbly (even if by foreplanning the coitus in its intricacies or intricately controlling the determined structure of the coitus through being the Sustainer) .
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The constraint is part of the micro-managing. But regardless,
What I was pointing out was that you said, However, each separate subcategory of causality is caused directly by the previous, and only indirectly by the original cause or the second cause after that.
In most Abrahamic religions, implicitly, God only has "indirect" responsibility for the creation of an ordered substance (e.g. a person from a mass of cells that other person carried and decided upon actions that led to that existence). So if a god has free-will, and a human has free-will, both are agents of "responsibility for existence." One is directly responsible for "our existence" in the semantic term of "literally us, as specific humans that grow from two-cells to single cell to multicellular" (i.e. our parents), and one (the one in the Deist "role" sense) would be indirectly responsible.
And yes, I am aware that explicitly they (the Abrahamists) want to feel that a perfect infallible entity is the direct cause of themselves in similitude and above all other natural beings.
Otherwise, it would be an intervening Theist entity involved in the coitus deeply and superbly (even if by foreplanning the coitus in its intricacies or intricately controlling the determined structure of the coitus through being the Sustainer).
I find your thought processes intriguing. They suggest a very curious and exacting intellect engaging issues at very fundamental levels. I appreciate the rigor but in rambling discourse such as found here in the forum, I suspect it can be quite frustrating for you. Constraints upon processes CAN be seen as micro-managing but only in the strictest sense of one-time management by structure. Deism, as it applies to the physical structure and functioning of our Reality, is most logical. But a living conscious intelligent God cannot be ruled out when accounting for the interactions of our conscious Self in decision-making. We can't rule out or assume no interventions or micro-managing occurs because we simply "Do Not Know."
Christians believe in the Father, the Son, and the Holy spirit. Three Gods? Is this polytheism?
Certainly seems that way at times because there are various places in the Bible showing a dialoguebetween Father and Son which is obviously seen as two separate persons.
Christians believe in the Father, the Son, and the Holy spirit. Three Gods? Is this polytheism? Christians say no. These are merely aspects of the one true creator Being.
Hindus worship hundreds of deities. Ultimately however, Hindus say that these various deities are really merely aspects of the one true creator Being.
Them that create the beliefs get to create the rules.
no, thats more like a person can be a father, a son, and a brother but be the same person. They could even be the most hated enemy of another, but they are still the same person.
The constraint is part of the micro-managing. But regardless,
What I was pointing out was that you said, However, each separate subcategory of causality is caused directly by the previous, and only indirectly by the original cause or the second cause after that.
In most Abrahamic religions, implicitly, God only has "indirect" responsibility for the creation of an ordered substance (e.g. a person from a mass of cells that other person carried and decided upon actions that led to that existence). So if a god has free-will, and a human has free-will, both are agents of "responsibility for existence." One is directly responsible for "our existence" in the semantic term of "literally us, as specific humans that grow from two-cells to single cell to multicellular" (i.e. our parents), and one (the one in the Deist "role" sense) would be indirectly responsible.
And yes, I am aware that explicitly they (the Abrahamists) want to feel that a perfect infallible entity is the direct cause of themselves in similitude and above all other natural beings.
Otherwise, it would be an intervening Theist entity involved in the coitus deeply and superbly (even if by foreplanning the coitus in its intricacies or intricately controlling the determined structure of the coitus through being the Sustainer) .
well presented.
it addresses the notion in the proper light. "Deny everything because some us feel religion is dangerous" is not the most valid interpretations we can come up with. not even close.
But what if the feedback loops do effect the system? for example: My life is continuing to effect the atoms and how they behave in me. Yes, each individual event may not be passed down very far, but the net set of interactions involved, many are repeated, in me "living" are always affecting the material in me.
Motor proteins form and disintegrate. Each motor protein thinking its life time is enough to judge the whole "you" would be kind of funny ... no?
it addresses the notion in the proper light. "Deny everything because some us feel religion is dangerous" is not the most valid interpretations we can come up with. not even close.
But what if the feedback loops do effect the system? for example: My life is continuing to effect the atoms and how they behave in me. Yes, each individual event may not be passed down very far, but the net set of interactions involved, many are repeated, in me "living" are always affecting the material in me.
Motor proteins form and disintegrate. Each motor protein thinking its life time is enough to judge the whole "you" would be kind of funny ... no?
It would be rather disappointing and depressing if we turn out to be motor proteins instead of consciousness, Arach!
no, thats more like a person can be a father, a son, and a brother but be the same person. They could even be the most hated enemy of another, but they are still the same person.
Is it really like that? Can a person be (or believe that they are) their own father, their own son, and their own brother and their own uncle but the same person... without a personality disorder?
But what if the feedback loops do effect the system? for example: My life is continuing to effect the atoms and how they behave in me. Yes, each individual event may not be passed down very far, but the net set of interactions involved, many are repeated, in me "living" are always affecting the material in me.
Feedback loops specifically affect systems. So I am not sure what sort of "counterpoint" you are trying to make here.
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Motor proteins form and disintegrate. Each motor protein thinking its life time is enough to judge the whole "you" would be kind of funny ... no?
It would be very funny.
Each "metaphorically sentient" motor protein suspending its judgment of the "cosmos" entirely (and especially in just the experienced --and well-educated consensus-- aspects of it) would be rather ridiculous for us to expect, though.
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It would be rather disappointing and depressing if we turn out to be motor proteins instead of consciousness, Arach!
None of that depresses my emotions. It would be rather marvelous actually. Sentient AI Robots would also be marvelous to me and would not depress me. But no human magic would be involved, just math and physics.
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