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tama

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5. Demiurgos!

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Fri Jan 18, 2013, 03:35 PM

Jan 2013

Gnostics call the Sky-Daddy demiurgos with many names, such as 'fool' and 'blind god' because he claims that he's The Creator and Only God. The Solipsist God.

On the other hand, concept of linear causality and Aristotelean "immovable mover" (Creator, Big Bang, etc. original cause to avoid infinite regress) is old idea that also scientific thought continues to struggle with. Current theory of evolution does not claim to explain origin of life (or universe), just how life adapts to and interacts with environment, constantly changing.

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What makes Creationism so special? [View all] DetlefK Jan 2013 OP

I think one reason is: it's kind of the Last Stand for the "god in the gaps" arguments phantom power Jan 2013 #1

Their message is clear: lastlib Jan 2013 #2

+1 deutsey Jan 2013 #4

supernaturalism sigmasix Jan 2013 #3

Demiurgos! tama Jan 2013 #5

According to cell theory the story of biology begins "once upon a time there was a cell" HereSince1628 Jan 2013 #7

It's a fascinating story tama Jan 2013 #8

They want to be separate from nature and floating above it Warpy Jan 2013 #6

If you're a theist, there's a slippery slope. Igel Jan 2013 #13

Theist morals are a cultural dead-ender, based on white lies and unfit for future challenges. DetlefK Jan 2013 #14

They seem have this idiotic belief that Evolution is incompatible with morality. Odin2005 Jan 2013 #9

They invested 2000 years in the idea of a soul. sofa king Jan 2013 #10

IIRC, US car manufacturers publically said it was because the big SUVs were profitable. HereSince1628 Jan 2013 #11

There creation account is poetry undeterred Jan 2013 #12