tumbleweed41
Resident Liberal Hippie
In all of creation, through all rationality and reasonable research, God fills that "missing piece" to the puzzle of the "first cause".May I ask, what evidence leads you to rationally conclude there is a God?
I do believe that "God", to a Modern Deist, is truly a speculative idea. Since we know we did not create the creation or ourselves, yet we and the creation do exist, it is logical to assume that God exists.
This is not "dogmatic". With advancements in our understanding of the Laws of Nature, we may learn more about God, or the First Cause, or we may logically find another answer that is more reasonable.
In physics, many times an idea of a particle is assumed to exist merely because one can see the reactions of other observable matter around the unseen particle. Sometimes this "unseen particle" is finally observed. Other times a more reasonable explanation is found.
Such is the Deist assumption of God.