A professor is not a spectator in their own class. So by your analogy, there is no contradiction.

So do mean that the ability to change the molecular structure of matter is a necessary attribute?

Well, I said you were posing questions in professorial fashion, but this is not a class and you are not the professor so the contradiction remains.

Be that as it may, I agree with Dilettante. You seem to have a postulate in mind, but because you won't share that with the group it becomes a guessing game.

Reason.

And more than a little bit of a waste of time...

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Science flies you to the moon.

Religion flies you into buildings.

I said nothing that indicated what my beliefs were. I simply framed my answers given the material being used as a source.

That answer is insufficient. Why would one attribute be any more 'reasonable' than another unless you already have a definition in mind?

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You're just trying to figure out how to save a few bucks and have a good time doing it.

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- George Bernard Shaw

Hey, don't hate the playa', hate the game...

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Science flies you to the moon.

Religion flies you into buildings.

IMHO, I qualify "deity" as higher knowledge and conciousness than the current Human condition. Because the Bible says we were "made in His image", His claim of superiority over us must be derived by something beyond a physical manifestation.

Peel some of His skin back, and see if He's a lizard.

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Obama isn't change...

He's just a different kind of wrong!

You are on to something with this knowlege point. When you say, "higher knowledge," do you refer to a quantitative difference or a qualitative difference or both?

If you mean a quantitative difference, then how much should a deity know?

What do you mean by "higher consciousness?"

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