From World to God?

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Richard L. Sturch. From World to God?

From World to God?

Table of Contents

Introduction

Dialogue I

Dialogue II

Dialogue III

Dialogue IV

Dialogue V

Dialogue VI

Dialogue VII

Bibliography

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New Dialogues Concerning

Natural Religion

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I’m not very happy about that, even though I am unsure about attempts to prove the existence of the Lord. You seem to be saying that God could not be the First Cause of the universe, not just that we can’t prove that He is. And this is ridiculous. Moreover, isn’t the will of God in itself a “law of nature”—indeed a more profound one than any other?

Yes, I suppose you are right, or rather would be right if there were a God. If there were, it would be possible to speak of him (or his creative will) as the cause of the universe in much the same way as one might speak of Anglo-German naval rivalry as one of the causes of the First World War. For it would be by his creative will’s being altered that the world could have been prevented from coming into existence. But it certainly isn’t possible to prove the reality of any such will, or of a God to exercise it.

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