Tuesday, June 19, 2012

A natural-looking supernaturally-created world

Ironically, here's an atheist cutting the legs out from under Jeff Lowder's evidence for naturalism:

Jonathan MS Pearce said...
Jeff,

Let me get this straight - you may have answered this in your objection.

Let's imagine that God created the universe and by fine-tuning all the laws, and creating ex nihilo, he is the supernatural explanation for everything. However, what he created were natural laws and a natural-looking universe. In fact, he's a bit like a classic deist God, stepping away after creation.

Where would this leave the argument, since one would find it difficult to differentiate a naturalistic universe from this supernaturalistic one? Or is it an argument that cannot make claims on first causes, but merely everything thereafter?

Excuse me if I have missed some nuances here.
June 18, 2012 5:34:00 PM CDT

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