Thread:User talk:Tmtoulouse/Bump: You know that obnoxious thing people do on the internet when they've said something and they feel they haven't been paid enough attention? I'm doing that./reply (12)

You need to distinguish the mere abstract idea that there is a God, from the specific claims of particular religions like traditional Christianity.

For the traditional Christian God to exist, the universe must have particular features (e.g. miracles), and from the absence of those features, we can infer the non-existence of the Christian God.

For a deist God to exist, the universe need not have any particular features at all. Hence, there is no reason from the nature of the universe to infer the non-existence of the God of deism.

So, your argument that P(H0) > P(H1), may well work for the God of traditional Christianity, but doesn't work for the God of Deism.

And before you argue the God of Deism is somehow parasitic upon Christianity, it is very similar to the God of philosophers such as Plato or Aristotle, who both predate Christianity, and whose work shows no direct signs of Jewish influence either. They are obviously based on ancient Greek paganism, but if they turned from that to a more refined philosophical perception of the deity, modern science had nothing to do with it. It seems likely to me that Platonism/Aristotelianism was a natural development out of Greek paganism.