Re: [asa] Re: on TE and PT, a response to Gregory

From: j burg <hossradbourne@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Feb 02 2008 - 10:56:17 EST

On 2/1/08, D. F. Siemens, Jr. <dfsiemensjr@juno.com> wrote:
> I made a study of PT some time back and came to the same conclusion as
> Griffin. God-matter must be eternal, but the universe is about 13 gy old.
> So there must have been a series of catastrophes, each providing the
> material for a new universe. This indicates that the deity does not know
> enough and so is not competent to avoid catastrophes, so another one is
> coming--we can hope later rather than sooner. This will be followed by a
> new series of universes, each of which will come to a bad end.

That would appear to be an IMPLICATION (possibly a very good one) of
PT, and not what I understand a PT would hold. I would suggest that it
is hardly the only implication.

Burgy

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