Review: "God Is No Thing" by Rupert Shortt – an excellent response to New Atheism

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27. This sentence

The claim made by religious philosophers of a certain kind is not that God can be invoked to plug a gap, but that there must be some fundamental agency or energy which cannot be thought of as conditioned by anything outside itself, if we are to make sense of a universe of interactive patterns of energy being exchanged. Without such a fundamental concept, we are left with energy somehow bootstrapping itself into being.

Uses a God of the gap argument to say we can't say they are using a God of the gap argument.

We don't know the first causality of the Universe, though there are certainly theories that fit in to a natural physics, so why isn't that a thinking, all loving God? Except there is no reason to point to it.