
Does God Exist? (Alex Plato) | Ep. 389
Pints With Aquinas
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Order Only Comes From Order, Right?
He says we have to look at human events. The evidence is the order. How do we explain that? So if I throw paint at a canvas without any sort of specific intention, except to throw it, that's still order coming from order? Yes. And so then we can imagine in an analogous way to a mind, a mind can put order out on a thing. That's what he calls stage two theism. He goes through history and talks about all the ancient Greek, Roman, Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, philosophers who agreed with this conception. This is roughly the God of the philosophers, right? A kind of cosmic intellectualism. Not, not per se.
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