Different in degree or kind (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, November 09, 2013, 00:44 (4033 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: Your "only mystery" is how eternal energy could have acquired consciousness. The atheist could also say that the "only mystery" is the appearance of life and consciousness on Earth. In both cases, wow, some mystery! Either of those is enough to make anybody sit on a picket fence.-You make it sound as if the atheist doesn't recognize a first cause. And of course that is why they wsnt a cyclical universe or an eternal universe. Anything to get around a big bang.
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> DAVID: We do not obtain something from nothing. We can stop at this point in the discussion. I am satisfied not to go further than the thoughts in this paragraph. Remember I do not accept all of religions statements about the attributes of God. How can they know them. When Abraham asked God who he was, He said "I am who I am." Perfect reply. And I am immensely happy with that stopping point.
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> dhw: And of course I want you to be happy. BBella calls it The All That Is. Same idea. Only I don't think she gets it to talk.-But the religions give God all sorts of thoughts we somehow are to accept are real.