Re: Something from nothing

Stephen Jones (sjones@iinet.com.au)
Thu, 01 Jun 95 23:27:53 EDT

Glenn

On Mon, 29 May 1995 22:00:10 -0400 you wrote:

>Stephen Jones wrote of my bread-making robot:
>
>"I thought the very essence of deism was precisely the idea of God who
>set the world going like a clock and did not intervene in its workings
>after that.
>
>How exactly is God "involved" in this "robot" example>"
>
>God made the Robot!

Indeed. And in Deism, God made the "clock"! <g>

Is God making "the Robot" really an adequate explanation
to qualify it as Biblical-theistic?

I personally think not.

Stephen

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