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In article <Btx5E0.2Kw@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu  
(David Chalmers) writes:
> The paper itself is quite fun, although it does rest on some dubious
> assumptions, viz: (1) to get the upper bounds required for the
> application of Zorn's Lemma, one must postulate that there is something
> causally anterior to every item in a given causal sequence; (2) to
> establish the uniqueness of God (who is, of course, a First Cause), one
> must assume that for any two events, there is some item that is
> causally anterior to both.


Also, it assumes there are no causal loops, which is also thoroughly 
unverified.

In any case, it equates God with a first cause----a pretty minimalist
interpretation, considering it could just be a quantum fluctuation
in a phase field. Not the sort of deity one can warm up to :-)

--
Barry Merriman
UCLA Dept. of Math
UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research
barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet; NeXTMail is welcome)