On 29 Jan 2014, at 17:29, John Clark wrote:
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 2:38 AM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]>
wrote:
>> If there is no all encompassing purpose or a goal to existence
and if the unknown principle responsible for the existence of the
universe is not intelligent and is not conscious and is not a being
then do you think it adds to clarity to call that principle "God"?
> Yes, because it can still be something transcendent and
responsible for your existence, and having no name
And that's the problem, you insist on giving the thing with no name
a name, and a ridiculously inappropriate one too!
Please read Lao-tseu or Plotinus. That is a false problem in theology,
and if you read AUDA, you will see how machine car refer to truth
without using a truth predicate. Then any "name" can be used as a
pointer to that. We can only bet on. It is not granted.
> And we can also remain open that it *might* be a person
And there *might* be a china teapot in orbit around the planet
Uranus too, but I doubt it.
Sure, that is possible, but the proposition that God is a person or
not might have more appreciable consequences than a china teapot in
orbit around Uranus (if that is the case: congrats to the Chinese).
Bruno
John K Clark
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