Reply To: Okay, Nerdy Keith, I'll bite: Why would someone be a deist?
OK. I’m sort of dizzy after reading that response…and unfortunately I feel like I understand your view of the deist universe even less. Your last sentence is a very bold claim. I think you’ve shifted away from imperfections in an ongoing process now to a universal balance (that is…explaining away flaws through cosmic balance instead of the earlier analogy of problems until completion).
There is a lot we just don’t know about the rest of the universe; so I would argue that it is likely that the harshness of nature may be actually essential to maintain balance and order within the universe itself.
You argue that x is likely because we do not know stuff (with a likely followed by a maybe). Maybe you could expand a little on this concept of balanc (you must admit it is rather vague). And more importantly how you make the leap from us not knowing stuff to “harshness of nature being essential because…cosmic balance”.
