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Do We Really Have To Choose?

Storm

ThrUU the Looking Glass
Well if a theistic God would just be a being from outside this continuum, then it could be any "normal species" that exists in another continuum and created this continuum.
As analogy: For a microworld created in a lab the scientist who created it would be God.
In my view a theistic God is not defined as such a thing. Its not just a creator that resides outside of this continuum and occationally does something here.
How are you using "continuum," here?
Most theists tend to see God as an absolute and allencompassing creator, transcending this world and with nothing beyond it. Not some kind of supernatural creature that might just have experimented in a lab so to speak.
I agree, so whence the aliens?

Creationism for example also is not "excluded" by science according to that strategy of arguing.
But it is, assuming you're going by the common definition. There are mountains of evidence against it.

In my view this is just semantics.
If the supernatural is bound by something that we might call "supernatural laws" then it automatically becomes "nature".
It may be semantic, but I disagree that it becomes nature.

Let us for example take your belief.
If God is just participant in a superdimension like we are beings in this dimension,
That's not quite right. I don't believe in alternate dimensions. My God is a superorganism.

then God in my view is only a being and not God.
That's your call, I don't agree. I would like to discuss it with you, but I think it's too far off-topic. Perhaps you'd be willing to resurrect an old thread: What Makes A God?

Most theists wouldnt agree that your God is what they would expect God to be.
Agree, but I fail to see the relevance.

Science rules out the supernatural by studying something which is defined to be the only existing thing.. nature.
"Ruled out" means that it's no longer a possibility. Geocentrism and YEC have been ruled out. God and the supernatural, not so much.

I didn't actually present one did I?
But anyway... what is your objection to what you think i meant?
You seemed to be arguing against the idea that the soul encapsulates the personality. I agree, but it goes against the very concept of souls.

I already doubted my highschool english ;)
Oh, is English not your first language? Assuming not, yours is excellent, I wouldn't have guessed.
 
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