It's a great sentiment but I'm terrible at not giving damns hehe. But what i'm getting at is that I don't want to slorp up misinformation and then think it's a representation of the actual PoR arguments.

Is there a way to keep up with actual academics?

I shouldn't assume people know what they're talking about,should I? haha. Well, I ordered a book just now called the oxford dictionary of philosophy in the hopes to someday be able to separate the good from the bad.

I know this deviates from my original OP but I personally do take some kind of value from what someone believes. And if that person knows their stuff their beliefs seem good to go off on and base mine own on. That's what i've been doing my entire life. So then may I ask you, What is your view of the theistic 3 omni God? Where does it fall short and why?

Again my sincerest apologies if this is not the way it should be. I'm just ever so curious about what people think.

I'm really glad to hear that. I do my absolute best to remain open minded and to learn. What do you gain by being hard headed in a conversation about God/the divine anyway?

I'm actually reading that post right now!

Forgive my ignorance but what are those main unknowns? I've seen people argue that a God explanation is fundamentally different from a mechanistic explanation. For example: People who argue that God must be the ground of being/ first cause don't have a mechanism as to how he (I'm assuming an abrahamic God with the 3 omni features.) made that happen. So they argue that he is the efficient cause and that the means to how he did it could be the material cause. And from that the material cause can still be studied?

I know I am one of the newcomers with a main interest in PoR. But I simply want to learn these things so I hope I don't get brushed away because of that.

Yes in the lustrum that I've been trying to find out about God I noticed that there are different layers of discussion going on. I started out at the common discourse of : You have no shred of evidence for god - You believe your ancestor is a monkey and then gradually found out that there was a philosophical area that deals with the question. To hear then, that this area would also be looked down upon felt disheartening. I have very little experience in philosophy other than reading a WLC book. So I come to places where people have a reasonable idea of the goings on (I assume) and see what they think.

Thanks for your response.