Re: and who made god?

From: Wolf Kirchmeir (wwolfkir_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 23:58:05 -0400

King John II the Good wrote:
[...] However,
> when looking at the almost infinite deapth of the Universe, its
> virtually unbreakable rules of Nature that seem to animate the
> inanimate, and the underlying pattern of it all, I get a true honest
> feeling that some sort of concious being must of created it.

So do a lot of people, but why should it be a _conscious_ being? What
meaning of "conscious" do you have in midn (other than "the attrribute
of 'god' that enables it to create the universe", which would be a
circular definition.)

Besides, a feeling isn't evidence of anything other than your
personality or character.

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