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Thanks for the replies to my question. I think one thing here is a difficulty in agreeing on what is meant by the word God - and that's ok, it is fine to have different ideas.

One of the things, perhaps from Linda's post is the idea of scale, whether we are talking about a whole universe - or indeed larger than that, or whether we mean things which affect individual people or even going much smaller scale than that. Perhaps we might take a kind of fractal view, that every scale has its own detail, and one can zoom out or zoom in to consider larger or smaller scale matters.

It's possible that we may assign different labels, in the way we understand things, that the word God may seem apt in some contexts (or in none) while in others we refer to the same thing using less weighty words.

I'm not aiming to conclude anything here, I do think perhaps the term God has much debate and thought already attached to it. Maybe what I had in mind was to approach things from the opposite direction, that is to say, simply based upon observations. How we square our observations with a broader comprehension of things is I think necessarily an individual matter.