John Thornton
C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> That's true if the creator is thought of as an existent within the universe, a
> demiurge. But that is a position that classic Christian theism rejected.
> (Aquinas e.g. held that the universe could be eternal.) And that is the sort of
> god Hume was rejecting in his critique of the cosmological argument.
>
> But the Christian notion of creation is that it is not a matter of making
> something or causing it to be of the familiar sort. As people have pointed out
> in this thread, there really is something odd about asking why everything exists.
>
> And Hawking, perhaps surprisingly, endorses that question when he writes,
> "You still have the question: why does the universe bother to exist? If
> you like, you can define God to be the answer to that question." --CGE
>
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> Jim Farmelant wrote: