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If you believe that "God" made the earth and the solar system and the WHOLE of the universe and beyond, then you are misinformed and should go live with the fairies and pixies of this world.......Show more

How can you possibly think a celestial conjuring trick is more wonderful than creation of life from simple cells and diversity spreading throughout our planet by means of evolution. We are all related to every other living thing on earth. Isn't that so much more wonderful than "poof" god did it?...Show more

The demiurge is a concept for an artisan-like figure responsible for the fashioning and maintenance of the physical universe. The word demiurge is an English word from a Latinized form of the Greek δημιουργός, dēmiourgos, literally "public worker", and which was originally a common noun meaning "craftsman" or "artisan". The demiurge is the fashioner of the real, perceptible world, and of the Ideas, but is still not itself "the One". In the arch-dualist ideology of the various Gnostic systems, the material universe is evil while the non-material world is good. Accordingly, the demiurge is malevolent.

Form of the Demiurge, nous as the contemplative faculty (ergon) within man which orders the force (dynamis) into conscious reality.

The Nous (mind of God), and is one of the three ordering principles:

Arche (Gr. "beginning") - the source of all things,
Logos (Gr. "word") - the underlying order that is hidden beneath appearances,
Harmonia (Gr. "harmony") - numerical ratios in mathematics.

The figure of the Demiurge emerges in the theoretic of Iamblichus, which conjoins the transcendent, incommunicable “One,” or Source. Here, at the summit of this system, the Source and Demiurge (material realm) coexist via the process of henosis. The One as a monad whose first principle or emanation is intellect (nous), while among "the many" that follow it there's a second, super-existent "One" that is the producer of intellect or soul (psyche).

The "One" is further separated into spheres of intelligence; the first and superior sphere is objects of thought, while the latter sphere is the domain of thought. Thus, a triad is formed of the intelligible nous, the intellective nous, and the psyche in order to reconcile further the various Hellenistic philosophical schools. assigns the third rank to the Demiurge, identifying it with the perfect or Divine nous with the intellectual triad being promoted to a hebdomad. nous produces nature through intellectual mediation, thus the intellectualizing gods are followed with a triad of psychic gods.

Psalms 82:1 describes a plurality of gods (ʼelōhim), which an older version in the Septuagint calls the “assembly of the gods,” although it does not indicate that these gods were co-actors in creation.
from the expression, "Let us make man," of Genesis that God had used other beings as assistants in the creation of man, and he explains in this way why man is capable of vice as well as virtue, ascribing the origin of the latter to God, of the former to His helpers in the work of creation.

The earliest Gnostic sects ascribe the work of creation to angels, some of them using the same passage in Genesis. So Irenaeus tells of the system of Simon Magus, of the system of Menander, of the system of Saturninus, in which the number of these angels is reckoned as seven, and of the system of Carpocrates. Again, in his report of the system of Basilides, we are told that our world was made by the angels who occupy the lowest heaven; but special mention is made of their chief, who is said to have been the God of the Jews, to have led that people out of the land of Egypt, and to have given them their law. The prophecies are ascribed not to the chief but to the other world-making angels.

The Latin translation, confirmed by Hippolytus, makes Irenaeus state that according to Cerinthus (who shows Ebionite influence), creation was made by a power quite separate from the Supreme God and ignorant of Him. Theodoret, who here copies Irenaeus, turns this into the plural number “powers,” and so Epiphanius represents Cerinthus as agreeing with Carpocrates in the doctrine that the world was made by angels..... and the ETC....Bah..Bah...Bah......Show more

i really enjoyed Neil deGrasse Tyson's show
Origins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ItM53Rurn8...Show more

Its always more fun to share a joint....Show more