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If one could prove that there can be no thought without an organic host (such as a human being) to process the thought, then would we not prove that God's awareness could not have preceded life on earth, and hence, that God could not exist?
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November 6, 2005

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Mark Crimmins
November 6, 2005 (changed November 6, 2005) Permalink

I'll grant you that there could be no immaterial god with cognitive capacities if such capacities are possible only for "organic" creatures. But I very much doubt that the latter condition is true.

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