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Old 08-18-2002, 08:12 AM   #11
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Perhaps you could explain to me how the properties and motives of god could be known well enough by anyone to be used in any argument pertaining to the existence/non-existence of god.
People that use the God arguement provide the definition of God.
People that attempt to refute their evidence can only use the definition provided in the arguement.
My refutation was on the (hypothetical) claim that god, by definition, was omnipotent.
Where they get the god info., your guess is as good as mine. Perhaps the bible or some other religious documents.
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Old 08-20-2002, 06:29 AM   #12
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I must be being dense again because I do not see how you have to have the law of conservation of energy before you have energy. I would think that in a universe without energy there could be no law of the conservation of energy constraining it.
That is my point. Energy can not exist without it's 'laws'. The 'laws' of energy would not exist without energy. We agree on this point.
Energy and it's laws are one in the same.

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Another thought is if you have two universes then you can transfer energy from one to the other. Viewing only one universe at a time it would seem that the law was violated. One universe could be "created" out of another.
Again, there would be no creation. A universe is not a separate entity from energy. Energy is the universe. Energies convert to form the physical properties of itself that we can see, measure, and manipulate. In your example, energy is not created, it goes through it's infinite dance of conversion.

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I still think that whatever structure energy is made from would not have to necessarily follow the laws of energy.
This would be possible if energy was subservient to a higher law. I don't think this is possible due to the nature of energy in all it's forms. Energy is everything in existence (life, matter, universe, etc), so what could dictate to energy how it will react to it's own existence.
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