I’m not going from “our Universe exists” to “an omni-being exists and takes notice of our Universe”. I’m going from “an omni-being exists and takes notice of our Universe” to “said being controls the universe”.
I may not have been perfectly clear upthread, so let me try rephrasing and explicitly stating what I had been taking implicitly: If God exists, then all perfectly natural mechanisms were set in place by God.
Understood; but this means that you can’t look at any natural mechanisms and interpret them as evidence for the existence of a God. That would be circular reasoning.
I’m not going from “our Universe exists” to “an omni-being exists and takes notice of our Universe”. I’m going from “an omni-being exists and takes notice of our Universe” to “said being controls the universe”.
I may not have been perfectly clear upthread, so let me try rephrasing and explicitly stating what I had been taking implicitly: If God exists, then all perfectly natural mechanisms were set in place by God.
Understood; but this means that you can’t look at any natural mechanisms and interpret them as evidence for the existence of a God. That would be circular reasoning.
Well, not merely on the basis of the existence of natural mechanisms at all; that would, yes, be circular reasoning.