Video: The Universe is a Single Conscious Substance – Spinoza’s God?

Zia H Shah MD’s comments: We have a good coverage on Pantheism and refutation of it. Dead and inert matter cannot be God. In one line Pantheism is replacing one small wooden or stone statue, with all of universe. In the study of consciousness if you find panpsychism to be wrong then attributing consciousness to…

September 14, 2026

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Zia H Shah MD’s comments:

We have a good coverage on Pantheism and refutation of it. Dead and inert matter cannot be God. In one line Pantheism is replacing one small wooden or stone statue, with all of universe.

In the study of consciousness if you find panpsychism to be wrong then attributing consciousness to the whole of the universe is equally wrong. If an atom or a molecule is not conscious, then all 10 raised to the power 80, all of them put together, are not conscious.

I believe that Pantheism, like Deism, is a station on road to agnosticism and atheism. When someone loses hope in Transcendent God or the religion they inherited, for whatever personal or communal limitation, they invent Pantheism to make sense of our breath-taking universe.

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The One Substance and the Living God: A Scholarly Refutation of Pantheism from the Abrahamic Traditions, with Special Focus on Islam – The Glorious Quran and Science

September 14, 2026 at 5:37 pm

[…] Shah’s own summary is characteristically blunt: “Dead and inert matter cannot be God. In one line Pantheism is replacing one small wooden or stone statue, with all of universe.” And further: “I believe that Pantheism, like Deism, is a station on road to agnosticism and atheism. When someone loses hope in Transcendent God or the religion they inherited… they invent Pantheism to make sense of our breath-taking universe.” This essay takes that framing seriously in both directions — treating pantheism as a serious and often noble intellectual response to wonder, worthy of charitable engagement, while nonetheless arguing that it collapses under scientific, philosophical, and theological scrutiny. thequran […]

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