Re: Provine Ridicules TE's

J.D. Guzman (jguzman3@panam.edu)
Wed, 04 Mar 1998 18:03:00 -0600

>John Rylander wrote (re Will Provine's arguments about God)
>>
>>Wouldn't his argument just be two-fold, namely:
>>
>>(1) If we can naturally/naturalistically explain everything, God is
>>therefore superfluous, and so by Occam's razor, should be eliminated from
>>our thinking. (He may even go for the less plausible, more aggressive,
>>scientistic version: (1') if it's even -conceivable- that we can
>>naturally/naturalistically explain everything, ....)
>>

Yes it would be true that if we could natuarlistically explain everything
then God would be superfluous, however, it is the case that currently
science can't explain everything. There are many things that our universe
does and has that scientist have a hard time with.

On top of that there is the current trend in scientific litterature to
atleast allow the possibility of a supreme being of some sort. It is
obvious to me from reading some books on cosmology and physics that there is
still plenty of room for God in our universe. Furthermore, there is a
substantial amount of scientist that will readily tell you that science
can't explain everything, therefore, the total illimination of God isn't
going to happen.

>>and
>>
>>(2) An all-good, all-powerful, all-knowing God would never use the crude,
>>inefficient, natural evil/pain-producing evolutionary means to achieve his
>>ends. If "a god worth having" were real, something like Creation Science
>>would indeed be the case. (The old-fashioned but ever-popular problem of
>>[natural] evil.)

What makes you think that God must do things the way that you think he
should. I guess your flaw is that you don't think that a God that has done
things the way that he has is worth time. Well let me tell you that that is
irrelevent to whether he exist or not. Just because God choose to do things
in a manner which wasn't to your liking doesn't cease to make him God. If
God decided to kill everyone this instance, would that mean that God is not
God. This to me is an absurd line of reasoning. God by his nature can do
what he pleases and when he pleases.

Best Regards,

J.D.

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