QUOTE(skepticguy @ Jun 23 2006, 10:27 PM)

I seem to recall reading that Nature "creates" a great number of things. Nature has "created" things from avalanches to zebras, hurricanes to snowflakes. I think you need to open a science book, sammy. You've got a lot of reading to do.
Like I said, nature is referred to as the specific normal characteristics of something. It is created. God created it. When a hurricane happens, it happens by the creating of God. He created nature.
A creation does not create, the most it can do is be a reason or a cause.
When I say creating I mean bringing things from non-existence into existence. No one creates with this meaning except God. Even when you put a chair together you are not creating with that meaning, you are putting already created things together in a different shape & arrangement.
And for your info I study science and I'm not going to listen to a bunch of blind followers who think this whole universe can come because of an explosion. They havn't even gotten to the point of proving anything as a fact, it always stays as a theory because someone made it up and can find "some evidence".
QUOTE(skepticguy @ Jun 23 2006, 10:27 PM)

Completely unsupported assertion.
And I did support my assertion that the laws of nature are created. I said they work in a specific fashion so that means they were created to be like that.
Something without a will can not create it can only be a cause or a reason. It itself needed a creator who created and made it the reason that precedes a particular result.
QUOTE(skepticguy @ Jun 23 2006, 10:27 PM)

God operates in a specific way rather than any other way. This specificity means that he had to be specified (God doesn't grow like a tree. God doesn't produce sprouts. God doesn't sweat. God is omniscient. God is omnipotent. These are specifics). That means that God was created. And since God was specified that means he didn't exist before he was created; it is quite illogical to think otherwise.
The Attributes of God are those of Godhood. That means, the Creator MUST be Attributed with these things for it to be logical that He is the Creator. For example, the Creator can not be Attributed with ignorance. Because that is weakness and contradicts Godhood.
See how it is not a specification but rather a mental deduction - it can't be any other way - that is why it is not a specification.
QUOTE(skepticguy @ Jun 23 2006, 10:27 PM)

Two thoughts for you to ponder:
1.) Perhaps Paradise is for those who reject these silly notions and acknowledge that God triggered the Big Bang and has since left the universe to run under Natural Law. Nothing was "created" on purpose; not any more than a ball which is sent rolling down a hill was intentionally pushed so that it would hit specific rocks along the way down and bounce into a green bucket at the bottom of the hill, tipping it over and sending old rain water onto the porch steps. If not, why not?
God is not a body. He is not like what we imagine. He Knows with an eternal and Everlasting Knowledge. His Will is Eternal and Everlasting. Everything that happens is according to His Eternal Will and Destining and Eternal Knowledge.
Nothing at all can come into existence for even a blink of an eye without it being by His Destining.
Because no creation happens without a Creator.
The human does not create. When he cuts an apple, he is the reason & the knife is the reason but the creator is God. God has the Power to create a cut in the apple without a knife or a person.
If the human was the creator then how come he can't undo what he did? He can't uncut the apple. The Creator has the Power. But the human doesn't.
QUOTE(skepticguy @ Jun 23 2006, 10:27 PM)

2.) "This earth," if created, is the ONLY example of this creator's handiwork that we have. We have NO REASON to believe he can do any better. If you drive a car off the Ford assembly line and it falls apart within a year of ownership --and this is the only model of Ford ever assembled and released to the public--what evidence do you have that the "secret, invisible" car model that Ford has behind the factory doors --that no one has ever seen or driven--is any better than the one they expended a great deal of their energy making for public consumption?
Like I said, God is not attributed with Attributes that contradict Godhood. Hence He is not attributed with imperfection. His creating a person as weak or imperfect is not an imperfection to Him. He does things for a wisdom. It contradicts Godhood to be attributed with not having the Power to create something. God has the Power to create every mental possibility.
QUOTE(skepticguy @ Jun 23 2006, 10:27 PM)

Isn't that convenient. You have to be brainwashed first before you understand that strapping a bomb to your body and blowing yourself up with young men, women an children at a sidewalk cafe is a good thing to do. You are deluded.
By the way I never said I support bin laaden or any of those suicide bombers. If you want to listen then listen and if you want to stay with your mind closed its not in my hand. There is a group of people who claim to be Muslim. They only add up to about a million next to the hundreds of millions of true Muslims. They are extremists. There are 3 types of extremists and they call themselves: hizbut-tahrir, wahhabi and hisb al-Ikhwaan (JI). They are the ones killing innocent people. They don't even care of they kill Muslims along with non-Muslims because they think that they are the only Muslims. Don't you know that in London there are Muslims - how come they didn't care? My guy friend lives there and he is Turkish - he doesn't look Muslim and he uses public transport. They don't care I'm telling you. They are pests to be gotten rid of. They interpret Islaam wrongly and the true Muslims have been fighting them ever since they emerged. Don't think that just the "war on terror" is the one fighting them. For those who are ignorant Muslims and think these people are doing something good for Islaam everyday we are out there teaching them the true ways -Not to be fooled by these people. Those terrorists are there using what they think is Islam for their own political agenda and if you can't see that then you have been brainwashed by the TV.
QUOTE(skepticguy @ Jun 23 2006, 10:27 PM)

Name one.
The Prophet told us that one of the signs of Judgement Day is to see the bare-footed, naked, carers of animals build high buildings.
That is the wahhabis in saudi Arabia who used to be waylayers taking the money of Muslims who are walking on the street. Then they got rich because of the oil.
QUOTE(skepticguy @ Jun 23 2006, 10:27 PM)

Name one.
Also a Prophecy that was fulfilled is that the Prophet informed us that constantinople (Istanbul nowadays I think) which was not conquered at his time, would be conquered by a pious God-fearing prince and army. And it was.
Also, the prophecy of the increase in killings and the men wearing women clothes and women wearing men clothes.
Also the defeat of the romans.
Also, the killing of the Prophet's grandson in karbalaa'.
QUOTE(skepticguy @ Jun 23 2006, 10:27 PM)

As long as the God they preached was your God. Right.
When I say God I mean the Creator. There is only one and that can be logically deduced.
QUOTE(skepticguy @ Jun 23 2006, 10:27 PM)

Well, $hit, sammy. When you create the criteria, you can make anything fit it.
There are 3 mental Judgements:
Mental necessity (the mind deduces that it must exist): God and His Attributes of Godhood.
Mental permissibility (the mind accepts that it could exist and that it could not exist): e.g. the existence of humans, animals, plants, etc.
Mental impossibility: the mind deduces that it can not exist. e.g. A partner to God.
The proof that there is only 1 God is that an Attribute of Godhood is that He has Power over everything and Destined everything. Each thing that happens now could not happen in a certain specific way unless it was Destined to happen that way. If someone said there is a God who destined it a different way then the answer would be that if it didn't happen the way he willed then obviously that is an attribute which contradicts Godhood.