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We seem to know more and more about reality as time goes on, would you agree?
Because we don't know everything, seems to give some folks inner turmoil and they have to make stuff up, to fill that gap.
Follow the lead of Hitchslap, watch the Dennett video, and he explains the need to believe very well.
I think the real question is: How did I, a mere internet troll, touch on a topic that an expert like Dr. Dennett touched on. I've never heard of Dr. Dennett, yet I already know why we have a need to believe, without consulting Dr. Dennett. How is this possible? Am I an expert? Surely not.
These are all great questions, and we should be asking them.The question then is: Why don't we know everything? What is limiting us from knowing everything? Why did the process of evolution make us in such a way that we are limited in our knowledge of reality? Why do we have an inherit need to believe in things and why is God still a viable possibility to believe? Why can we ask questions like this?
It seems obvious that we're meant to ask questions like this.
That's a "no", then?
Not necessarily. The critter that made tentative assumptions about things may have a slight evolutionary advantage over its competition that could not, or not as well. Selection pressure, even slight, favoured those critters. The other ones have fewer offspring, or die out, and lose the chance to become our ancestors.
Evolutionarily speaking, it may have given our ancestors a slight advantage over their competition. It may be the by-product of some other evolved and inherited trait.
"Souls, spirits, ghosts, gods, demons, angels, aliens, intelligent designers, government conspirators, and all manner of invisible agents with power and intention are believed to haunt our world and control our lives. Why?"
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/skeptic-agenticity/
How are "gods" a viable possibility? Explain. What is a "god"?
My childrens' biology class did spend a day or two on creationism, just to go over how it does not comport with science.
Do you consider all education that you disagree with to be "brainwashing"?
These are all great questions, and we should be asking them.
Are you an expert in the modern philosophy of mind?
We seem to know more and more about reality as time goes on, would you agree?
Because we don't know everything, seems to give some folks inner turmoil and they have to make stuff up, to fill that gap.
Follow the lead of Hitchslap, watch the Dennett video, and he explains the need to believe very well.
What if there's never a gap that can't be filled with God? What does that say about God? It definitely does not say God must be false. Instead, it says God is an extremely durable concept that has held up very well over the time that humans have had a chance to disprove the concept. That brings up another question: Why are scientists so afraid to fill gaps with God? If God turns out to be false then filling those gaps with God, really doesn't matter.
If God turns out to be true, then what? Aren't we at the mercy of God at that point?
Virtually nothing. A mystery filler for mysteries.What if there's never a gap that can't be filled with God? What does that say about God?
Define what you mean by "god" in some testable manner.It definitely does not say God must be false.
You have yet to define "God" in some testable, falsifiable manner.Instead, it says God is an extremely durable concept that has held up very well over the time that humans have had a chance to disprove the concept.
It is not fear. It is because your "god" is of no scientific significance.That brings up another question: Why are scientists so afraid to fill gaps with God?
Pascals Wager fail. Intellectual integrity fail.If God turns out to be false then filling those gaps with God, really doesn't matter.
Which god? How do you know you have the right one?If God turns out to be true, then what? Aren't we at the mercy of God at that point?
I'm glad you can admit that
To me that is the problem with Atheism. Atheists will agree to not believe in God, but then continue to try and figure out reality and not understand why they can't figure it out in a way that brings all of reality together in a way that makes sense to them personally.
Mind reading fail. I do not presume that all of reality can be figured out in a way that makes sense to me personally....
To me that is the problem with Atheism. Atheists will agree to not believe in God, but then continue to try and figure out reality and not understand why they can't figure it out in a way that brings all of reality together in a way that makes sense to them personally.
How can atheism be a religion if it lacks beliefs, tenets, prayer, worship, dogma, etc? Or are you using the word in the pejorative?This is closer to how I perceive Atheism.
I have two questions about this:It's generally accepted by all scholars that without the benefit of Constantine's insistence of using Christianity as a political tool, Christianity would not enjoy the popularity we see today.
According to information derived from the bible, the lifespans of some key figures in Genesis are estimated as follows:What do you mean by "transpire generations"?
Is it correct for me to believe that you do think it is possible the information in Genesis originated with Adam's reliable account of witness, and one way or another came through subsequent generations, to Moses?It appeared to be constructed so as to have me defend a position that I do not hold.
Information that I do not have.
I did not see it as right or wrong.
I don't know if you are even wrong.
Do you think I might be able to help you to see a Christian view of a philosophical issue? I have always respected your questions.It appears that our self-declared Christian philosopher isn't too keen to answer questions, even though that is ostensibly why he began this thread. I'd pretend to be surprised, but I'm not.
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