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The fact that there is design to the universe doesn't mean there is someone behind the curtain making up the rules.
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Originally Posted by LadyShea
The how can the Universe not be "accidental"? Doesn't that imply a designer?
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It implies an intelligence, yes, but not a person, or thing.
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Originally Posted by LadyShea
And how does the no-God stand with man so man doesn't have to stand alone?
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I'm not sure what you mean.
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Originally Posted by LadyShea
While we're at it, how does the Universe send people on missions?
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He didn't mean that literally LadyShea. He meant that he was compelled, by his nature, to move in this direction. That's all he meant.
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Originally Posted by LadyShea
His words come across as religious, in a personal deity way, as opposed to pantheistic, deistic, or the use of God as a synonym for "universe"
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That's why I'm trying to clear this up for you. God, and the laws of our nature, are synonyms. He personalizes sometimes but he's assuming you understand what he means already. He explained what he meant by the word God.
By now I hope you
understand that the word God is a symbol for the source of everything
that exists, whereas theology draws a line between good and evil using
the word God only as a symbol for the former. Actually no one gave
me this slide rule, that is, no one handed it to me, but the same force
that gave birth to my body and brain compelled me to move in the
direction of satisfaction and for me to be satisfied after reading Will
Durant’s analysis of free will it was necessary to disagree with what
obviously was the reasoning of logic, not mathematics. I was not
satisfied, which forced me to get rid of my dissatisfaction by proving
that this philosopher did not know whereof he spoke.
To say that God
made me do this is equivalent to saying I was compelled, by my
nature, to move in this direction of greater satisfaction, which is
absolutely true. Definitions mean absolutely nothing where reality is
concerned. Regardless of what words I use to describe the sun;
regardless of how much there is I don’t know about this ball of fire
does not negate the fact that it is a part of the real world, and
regardless of what words I employ to describe God does not change the
fact that He is a reality. You may ask, “But isn’t there quite a
difference between seeing the sun and seeing God? I know that the
description of the sun could be inaccurate, but I know it is a part of
the real world. However, we cannot point to any particular thing and
say this is God, therefore we must assume because of certain things
that God is a reality, correct?”