The traditional concept of God is that He is uncircumscribed by time and space, and therefore immaterial. That is not the same as being an "abstract idea", it only seems so because we canot quite get beyond our imaginations, which are grounded in sensory perception.
In any case, you seem not to have gotten the point of the last post. You asserted that it would make sense for discontinuities to be detected if God interferred with the course of events. I replied that there was no reason to expect such detection, at least beyond cavil, insofar as current theory holds that there is an element of randomness in events, and that a complex system cannot be adequately "mapped", and that remote and apparently insignificant causes could have large consequences. One could only discern discontinuity in a well- grasped, predictable system.
Acutally, the whole premise is that God effects the internal organization of the universe. I was only pointing out that it need not be in the direction of entropy, since He could control ripple effects.
The Thomistic view is that the continued existence of the universe depends on God's will, the very act of Being is dependent on Him. Thus, the most ordinary and regular of events are, in that sense, a matter of Divine Providence, and we are wholly dependent upon realities beyond time and space. If the "wisp of an implication" that preceded the Big Bang is credible, when it certainly can neither be imagined nor wholly understood, then the idea of a transcendent God is not so strange. |
