What? Then when did the coincidence happen? :doh2:
And like…doesn’t God work OUTSIDE of time?
The words atheist, atheists and atheism are generally written lowercase, as they aren’t actually proper nouns.
I’m likely to agree with Greylorn here, the programme was probably not very original, mainly provocative. So I’m not sure what the arguments were but I’m guessing that God is supposed to be dependent for His existence on things which were created at the Big Bang and not before.
I didn’t see it (don’t have cable). But it certainly sounds ridiculous based on your description.
Absolutely true. But religion cannot be crushed, the atheists tried in every communist regime that existed. Man is a spiritual creature by nature. Suppressing that doesn’t work any better than trying to stop breathing. Even in the secret depths of his heart, the atheist cries out to G-d.
No there aren’t. I defy you to name one.
G-d is defined as Actus Purus, the very act of existing. G-d needs no cause (is logically necessary) because the negation of of existing is “not existing”. An obvious logical contradiction. Therefore there is no other possible state of reality but for G-d to be. The physical laws are all extremely late in the logical build up of creation. Any being that is subject to physical laws cannot be G-d by definition.
First. There is no such thing as “Time”. There is only change, we use the change of material things, quartz, cesium, gears, water, etc, to regularize change into an easy to use format. In the old days they would say to meet at some place when the full moon rose, or the butterflies arrived in Capistrano. It was much more accurate to move to sundials and hourglasses, and then gears, and then crystal vibrations, and then cesium vibrations. A view that is becoming widely accepted in the physics community.
We are pan-en-theists. This means that G-d is both immanent and transcendent of the universe.
It is the Catholic definition of G-d and by extension, that of all Christians.
The “outside of time” stuff comes from the traditional definition of God as an omnipotent, omniscient entity, which leads to a number of other logical conundrums, such as why does God make people whom He knows He will subsequently send to hell. Elimination of the double-o properties, plus adopting the notion that the human “soul” was not created by God, solves these and many other theological conflicts.
Are you The Shadow now, knowing what lurks in the minds of men? (By the way, hearts don’t have secret depths, or thoughts, and do not cry out. The heart is a pump. An anatomy book might be helpful.)
According to Thermodynamics, energy cannot be created or destroyed. God therefore cannot have created it.
Kindly spare us the argument that God created energy such that it cannot be created or destroyed. Advancing such nonsense would mark you as incompetent at dealing with the most simple and obvious logic, and I do not want a good friend like you to look like a dogma-ridden nit here on CAF.
Don’t use an argument involving “time” either. The Three Laws of Thermodynamics are each time-independent. (See how determined I am to help you out, that you do not write something that would make you look ignorant? )
Actually, some physicists (eg Lawrence Krauss) think that it may be possible for laws of physics to be generated spontaneously along with the time and space to which they apply. This would mean that the ‘existence’ of laws or specifically, say, the law of conservation of matter/energy do not necessarily preclude their creation by a God. It just depends on what sort of God is envisaged, if one has faith.According to Thermodynamics, energy cannot be created or destroyed. God therefore cannot have created it.
Kindly spare us the argument that God created energy such that it cannot be created or destroyed. Advancing such nonsense would mark you as incompetent at dealing with the most simple and obvious logic, and I do not want a good friend like you to look like a dogma-ridden nit here on CAF.