ThePainefulTruth
Romantic-Cynic
Not even close to omnipotence is required to create our universe.
For instance, being able to intervene in our universe is a must for omnipotence. 'To create' doesn't entail the ability 'to intervene' though.
Being able to intervene would certainly be a quality of omnipotence, but that doesn't mean that on omnipotent would. In fact, if I'm right, just the opposite is the case. Not that It couldn't, but that It mustn't.
What's absurd about what I have said ?
Creating Pluto and the rest just happened, for one.
Atheism is often reached through skepticism towards the supernatural, which is why so many atheists don't believe in an afterlife.
Yet I've never come across one before. So are you an atheist? A good portion of atheists are young males emotionally rebelling against the phony gods--and it feels so good to be able to shoot those fish in that barrel. I wonder how many every get beyond that. It took Richard Dawkins a long time but it happened. The fact that deism can't be dismissed out of hand is occurring to a lot of thinkers.
[/quote]What kind of evidence would you expect ? Can you cite one example ?[/QUOTE]
Scientific evidence for a mechanism for spontaneous creation, or any natural evidence of anything from before the Big Bang. Stephen Hawking wanted it so bad he, well, wasn't that careful, and had to back off his suggestion. A reason that space is divisible down only to a Planck space/time since what happened between time zero and 10 to the -43 seconds is an unanswerable question, like the singularities in black holes. Was there time before the Big Bang, and if not, what does timelessness mean.