From: Robert Owen (rowen@technologist.com)
Date: Sun Jan 23 2000 - 13:48:34 MST
EvMick@aol.com wrote:
> By the way.....
>
> If a person beleives in god...then who made god?
>
> and who made the god maker?
>
> and who made ...............(ad infinnauseum)
>
> My experience is that theists refuse to address that question...they dodge it
> in all kinds of intersting ways. (Smoke and mirrors to my way of thinking)
[1] If "God" is defined as "That principle which enables all things to be" the
scope of this proposition includes both "God" and "That principle", and
infinite regress is precluded.
[2] If "God" is defined as "That Being whose essence is existence" infinite
regress is precluded.
[3] If, more simply, we define "God" as "Sui Generis" infinite regress is
precluded.
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[N]That which causes the event "Creation" is logically prior to all particular
created ["made"] things and as such infinitely self-subsistent.
N.B. If we define "God" as "X", then it is precisely X which prevents the
unlimited regressivness of all cosmogonical arguments. The is just
the central problem of the "Big Bang" theory. It does not begin at
the origin of the scale "O". It is like a ruler whose first mark or
origin is "1" instead of "0".
It is entirely unnecessary to be an element of any ideological set to make
these statements. The only membership needed is in "The Set of All
Rational Things".
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Robert M. Owen
Director
The Orion Institute
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Brevard, NC 28712-3659 USA
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