RE: Ex-"New Atheist", Now Christian
May 8, 2013 at 6:34 am
(This post was last modified: May 8, 2013 at 6:34 am by Love.)
(May 7, 2013 at 6:59 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Put another way:
Douglas Adams Wrote:Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
Indeed. I am aware of the concept introduced by William of Ockham (Ockham's Razor), but I do not see why this concept should have universal application. Also, I disagree that I am gratuitously invoking "God of the Gaps" to explain love.
As I am sure you're aware, consciousness and love are exceedingly complicated topics; they're exceptionally difficult to define. Although, I am sure, most atheistic rationalists would come to the hasty conclusion that the brain is the ultimate source and generator of consciousness and love (emerging from complex neural biochemistry), I view it as much more complex and counter intuitive than this; I interpret the available scientific evidence on the subject differently from most people. It is nothing to do with not being able to "accept reality" from a reductionist perspective.