CCC comments on Open Thread: March 4 - 10 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CCC 13 March 2014 07:57:42AM 0 points [-]

I'm not going from "our Universe exists" to "an omni-being exists and takes notice of our Universe". I'm going from "an omni-being exists and takes notice of our Universe" to "said being controls the universe".

I may not have been perfectly clear upthread, so let me try rephrasing and explicitly stating what I had been taking implicitly: If God exists, then all perfectly natural mechanisms were set in place by God.

Comment author: Bugmaster 15 March 2014 05:48:13AM 0 points [-]

Understood; but this means that you can't look at any natural mechanisms and interpret them as evidence for the existence of a God. That would be circular reasoning.

Comment author: CCC 16 March 2014 04:23:38AM 0 points [-]

Well, not merely on the basis of the existence of natural mechanisms at all; that would, yes, be circular reasoning.