Ellis, you mean something like this: "At last, someone who understands that all of reality simply
IS...and science is our method of comprehending it."
GØD is not a three-dimensional and personal being with any human like form--like an idol
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It is the term that I give to all the reality that IS... and experience, with my senses. I think of myself as a piece--that is, a son, or a daughter--of that reality, which I feel is a process, not an event.
Mike Kremer 2 Revlking
I'm glad you dont believe that G-d has a human form..like an idol. Nobody believes this today, except for a few natives in the deepest jungles of Borneo.
Unfortunately I have to take exception to your belief ....That G-d is the term you give to all reality. (Full stop)
That additional
...IS...is a superfluous nonsensical extra, as far as English is written.
Surely G-d is the term one should give to all that is NOT reality.
'An unproven non physical reality', in fact.
G-d is far to clever a spirit to show us his physical self, for then he would lose the spirituality features, that the human brain is just able to comprehend.
Were he ever to show his physical self to us, G-d would then be replaced by a picture, or a photo within a CD or a write up in a dictionary. We would always want him to show his physical self to us.
G-d is far too clever for that. He will always be best described as an unproven non physical reality.
He knows its the best way to keep our human minds pure, relaxed, and above all, thoughtful.
Once you try to say or prove that G-d is is the term you would give to all reality that ..
..IS....You are on the same slow downward inquiring slope that has been effecting humans and most religions for 5000 years.
I dont mind what ever un-proven non physical reality you wish call G-d, whether Spirit, Ghost, Gravity waves, Dark Matter, or even prehaps...Invisible Energy.
But as a follower of Michael Dowd, you must allow science and religion, to both enter and combine with your thoughts, whenever religion is on the menu.
G-d himself would approve, and I'm positive Michael Dowd does.
For that which you cannot comprehend has more chance of lasting 7000 years than any reality that..
IS Science allows us all to prove or dis-prove, that is exactly why I am sure Michael Dowd's religious teachings will last.