Re: Stephen Hawking Challenges God (zoorabbi)

In <i9s99l$407$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> micha@xxxxxxxxxxx (Micha Berger) writes:

I'm not playing with words, Micha, you are.

You didn't like my terminology, and rather than discussing my thesis,
made the thread about my terms.

I'm not nor have I ever been discussing terminology. Your thesis (or at
least part of it) is that Hawking is making a religious argument, because
he's making a claim about God. Right?

I am disagreeing with you, and saying he's not making any sort of claim
about God at all - he's making a claim about the universe (one which may
or may not be true, I agree).

"Claims about the Universe" is a larger category than "Claims about God."
Your assertion that discussions of the Universe are also discussions about
God falls into the smaller "Claims about God" category, not the larger
one.

You're trying make a dependency from the sub-set into the super-set, and
you can't do that.

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