Different in degree or kind: our speech has pitch control (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, July 03, 2018, 17:28 (2117 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: I'm not surprised at your answer, and your blinkered view of God who plays at no purpose. Why can't God have serious purposes?

dhw: The only serious purpose you have mentioned is his desire to have a relationship with humans, although he keeps himself hidden. What other serious purpose do you have in mind? And before you revert to your reluctance to “humanize” God, if he is human enough to want a relationship with humans, why can’t he be human enough to want to create a great changing spectacle of life that will fill the void? And finally, why is the latter view more blinkered and less serious than the view that all he wanted to produce was humans?

Humans are His main purpose, And filling a void He created shows purpose in the void, which allows for balance of nature, and you know the reason for balance. As for humans, don't you regard your existence as an important result of His activities?

dhw: I do not find any clarity in the concept of a single conscious mind that has no possible source, is vast enough to create and encompass a universe, and remains hidden.

DAVID: So why/how did all of this organized purposeful reality appear? Back to chance!

dhw: As above, there are two theories (chance and God) that I find equally hard to swallow, and that is why I remain an agnostic.

Back to the picket fence.