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by Cheapshot1 3701 days ago
>Sure, you can, since the watchmaker god precisely is one of the many mythical figures people make him out to be.

Or it could be magical fairies with magical universe creating powder. You can't claim something without something to support the claim. My fairies with magical fairy universe creating powder is just as plausible as any god in this scenerio.

Also if it manifests in the universe it is at least detectable. We might not know the cause but we can see the "supernatural" event taking place in the universe
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PhasmaFelis 3701 days ago
> Or it could be magical fairies with magical universe creating powder. You can't claim something without something to support the claim. My fairies with magical fairy universe creating powder is just as plausible as any god in this scenerio.

You're moving the goalposts. First you said that a non-involved deity is incompatible with any religious conception of God, which is incorrect. Now you've shifted to asserting that there's no evidence for the existence of a non-involved deity, which is reasonable, but has nothing to do with whether or not the idea is compatible with theism as it exists.

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dragonwriter 3701 days ago
> Or it could be magical fairies with magical universe creating powder.

Sure, the watchmaker god is not distinguishable from lots of other things, but that's different than it conflicting with all mythical portrayals of god (which it can't do since it is one such portrayal.)

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Cheapshot1 3701 days ago
The problem with this is the assumption of the god. God of the gaps argument. Unless the evidence points to it being a god we can not start making claims about it.

Example. You can't disprove god but he is all knowing loving and created the universe. This logic makes me scratch my head. Thinking Why just Why

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