Maybe I should have expanded on that a little.
The evidence that all perfectly natural mechanisms were set in place by God relies on the existence of God in the first place. Should an omnipotent and omniscient being exist, it's trivial to show that the current universe must have at least avoided the disapproval of such a being; and it is quite possible that the universe was constructed or altered into its current form.
The evidence that all perfectly natural mechanisms were set in place by God relies on the existence of God in the first place.
That sounds less like evidence and more like an assumption. You say:
Should an omnipotent and omniscient being exist, it's trivial to show that the current universe must have at least avoided the disapproval of such a being; and it is quite possible that the universe was constructed or altered into its current form.
I completely agree; however, I am not sure how you could get from "our Universe exists" to "an omn...
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