Evolution Or Intelligent Design

God said to Abraham...
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It's evolution, baby!
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Two sides of the same coin
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matthew wrote:
Look..........God just IS- He's "Pure Act" and therefore any imaginations you might have about this very subtley anthropomorphic Deity which you have, again, imagined which lead to the conclusion "God's existence is unprovable" are erroneous. Any limitation we might try to paste upon God is merely a projection of our own sensory and intellectual limitations.....and sometimes pride. After all, God is "to be" and we merely "are".

God does indeed exist.


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matthew wrote:
galanter wrote:In other words by definition God is beyond us in everyway imaginable, and an infinity of ways we can't imagine...but God can't be limited, and so he has to have any ability imaginable, including making it so that we can know him.


God is pure "to be" or "esse" or "einai", galanter. I hate to remind you of that which I'm pretty sure (judging by what you have written thusfar in these forums) you already know. In this statement of yours that I have quoted, you are essentially saying that God IS in fact limited in that He has not actualized an "ability" He qua God has, namely "making it so that we can know [H]im.". I say this much: God is pure "to be" or "that which is"...therefore He cannot have ANY abilities. If He had "abilities", or to use the old Aristotelian/Thomistic terminology "potentialities", then He would not be God.

Look..........God just IS- He's "Pure Act" and therefore any imaginations you might have about this very subtley anthropomorphic Deity which you have, again, imagined which lead to the conclusion "God's existence is unprovable" are erroneous. Any limitation we might try to paste upon God is merely a projection of our own sensory and intellectual limitations.....and sometimes pride. After all, God is "to be" and we merely "are".

God does indeed exist.


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Why do you make it so scary to post here.

DEBATE: Evolution VS Intelligent Design

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matthew wrote:God is pure "to be" or "esse" or "einai", galanter. I hate to remind you of that which I'm pretty sure (judging by what you have written thusfar in these forums) you already know. In this statement of yours that I have quoted, you are essentially saying that God IS in fact limited in that He has not actualized an "ability" He qua God has, namely "making it so that we can know [H]im.". I say this much: God is pure "to be" or "that which is"...therefore He cannot have ANY abilities. If He had "abilities", or to use the old Aristotelian/Thomistic terminology "potentialities", then He would not be God.

Look..........God just IS- He's "Pure Act" and therefore any imaginations you might have about this very subtley anthropomorphic Deity which you have, again, imagined which lead to the conclusion "God's existence is unprovable" are erroneous. Any limitation we might try to paste upon God is merely a projection of our own sensory and intellectual limitations.....and sometimes pride. After all, God is "to be" and we merely "are".

God does indeed exist.


Matthew. Like many others here (I imagine), I have studied philosophy and theology. Though I consider myself in no way an expert on these vastly complex matters, I feel that I know enough to be able to fight my way through your grandiloquent jargon to recognize that what you are saying is pretty much incoherent. Don't be fooled by this man's usage of obscure terminology, people. It is nowt but intellectual sophistry.

Matthew, quit with the showings-off and concentrate on making your writing vaguely comprehensible. Take your cue from this Galanter fellow for example. He wrties intelligently and insightfully, without wanking over his dictionary of philosophical terms. He's running rings around you, old boy.

matthew wrote:I say this much: God is pure "to be" or "that which is"...therefore He cannot have ANY abilities. If He had "abilities", or to use the old Aristotelian/Thomistic terminology "potentialities", then He would not be God.


This is goddamned clown shoes philosophy, son. What does it even mean?
Rick Reuben wrote:
daniel robert chapman wrote:I think he's gone to bed, Rick.
He went to bed about a decade ago, or whenever he sold his soul to the bankers and the elites.


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Simmo.

The problem with Matty is simple, he's living in a dream world.

Catholicism has this neat philosophical trick where they start with the premise that God does exist and then they proceed to perform vast tombs of philosophical gymnastics to prove their pre-decided conclusion.

Cutting through all of this bullshit is very simple, all you have to know is that the philosophy only gets okayed if the Vatican say so.

So you have a ludicrous situation where Catholic philosophers start with the answer, proceed to prove it with philosophical and semantic backflipping and then it is only given the ok if the church agrees with it.

Sweet Jesus!
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