God and Reality (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by David Turell , Tuesday, June 25, 2013, 18:47 (4167 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: You have left out what I was responding to: namely, your own statement: "Yes, we don't know where God came from or why He bothered to exist. One of those huge mysteries." Your argument against atheism is exactly the same as the atheist argument against your theism. You cannot conjure up intelligence and consciousness out of "first cause" just by stating that it is so. Sorry, but it's still one "huge mystery" in place of another!-Not a huge mystery to me. God exists as a first cause. What I said was I don't know where or how He came to exist or if He had a cause, because I cannot know that. I must make the asumption that God has always existed, and cannot give it a reason other than to look at the results of his activity.