The Absurdity of God Speaking Philosophically

I regard it as intellectually lazy to look at the universe and to suggest, as you seem to be doing, that this is all some accident. There isn't an artificial order in the universe and it's not chance. The question is absurd. What was here before there was something here? Exactly. And then we have to ask what was there first? That's right. But that's what you're doing with the idea of God speaking philosophically. You say you need someone to explain the order, but what do you have to explain God? You have to take what exists as a fact and you start with what exists. And you see how much you can learn about it. Aren't

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