"It is illogical to assume design without a designer. Now, of course, with this wording, it's worth mentioning that if something appears to be designed, but actually wasn't, then it's technically not design. However, the fact that the design of nature works so well that it has actually already figured out every mechanistic problem we may have with man made mechanisms with a similar purpose screams to a creator."
But I specifically asked about the spirit of God. That is yet to be identified and tied into this. What you're explaining here is simply cause and effect. Which the premise can be taken either way the law of causality didn't always exist so a cause or causer may not or may be reasoned to be not necessary/warranted for all of existence.
"Someone who must have been intelligent enough to know every possible thing one might need to know when creating a mechanism, and accommodates for everything in very creative ways. Tell me if that is characteristic of a universe that created itself."
I don't know instead of assuming. If you notice, you're gathering all this from logic, right. Now before logic existed because we take that as a possibility, how did any whatever it was operate according to what, being that logic wasn't there yet?
You see the entanglement. You can't answer or rationalize without applicable rules of rationality to use in the given point, space, whatever.
"Now, of course, this isn't proof of the God of the universe, it's just evidence. He has planted evidence of his genius everywhere. "
This doesn't make sense. It's like saying there's no proof of me being wet but there is evidence of my wet footprints. The two are connected. Proving one is proving what is connected behind it.
"But there's also no way to prove that the universe created itself. So, we must then consider the following question: which interpretation is more logical? Many would have you believe that Occam's Razor shows that God, an infinitely powerful and intelligent being, created the universe. But I will now show you how that is quite the contrary."
There's no way I know about. There could be a way I don't know of. What is logical or more logical versus what is proven to be fact are all different avenues.
People really can't prove the spirit of God by logic and science to anybody. What people do is work their way down or up the path of deductive reasoning and reach a conclusion. Not necessarily a fact but a conclusion.
"We begin with the starting assumption that God created the universe."
"that in reality, it was God that designed it and created it.
Realizing this, one must conclude that between these two explanations, God comes out on top."
Case and point , a conclusion you've arrived at in some deductive fashion. But has God been proven?
No. The spirit of God, how are you going to empirically prove what you can't observe?
You can't as it takes empiricism. So let me know if you want to continue this topic in the forum or in another debate setup.
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