Reply #153: You haven't really improved matters

[AlecBGreen]

OK, ill try harder this time ;)

"First you say that God is really just everything that exists." Kind of... God is the foundation of reality, the existence of which makes the existence of everything else possible.

"But then you say that God is self-aware." Yes. Omnipotent, omnipresent. From the vibrations of the tiniest quarks to the location and trajectory of every photon to the size, location and composition of every star & galaxy (and all those other parallel universes which might be "out there" somewhere) I believe God is fully cognisant of every part of His being.

"So everything that exists becomes equivalent to the supernatural being or creature I referred to earlier." An object or person (or God himself in this case) is more than the sum of its parts.

"And once again, proof is required." Why? Not a joke, but seriously, why must you have proof to believe something? On the first day of a college philosophy class Prof. asked us "Prove to me that you and the whole universe weren't just created 10 minutes ago with all memories intact etc." No proof, I just choose to believe I wasnt. I cant prove to myself we arent in some kind of "Matrix" scenario. There is no proof one way or the other, I just choose to believe we arent.

"...in this case, not proof of existence, because that's circular, but rather proof of self-awareness." This one could take a while ;) I have to clean up the house so Ill tackle it if you think it will help.