PHIL 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Peace And Conflict Studies, Immanence, The Dilemma
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But, we are also told, there must have been a regulator. A regulator, even if he were god, would only frustrate by his arbitrary intervention the natural order and logical development of things. To say that god is not contrary to logic is to say that he is absolutely identical to it, that he himself is nothing but logic; that is, the natural course and development of real things. In other words, it is to say that god does not exist. The existence of god makes sense only insofar as it implies the negation of natural laws. Either god exists, and consequently natural laws cannot exist, and the world presents a pure chaos; or the world is not chaos, and possesses an immanent order, with which. Consequently, we can enunciate this very simple and at the same time decisive axiom:
