(May 27, 2014 at 9:35 pm)Heywood Wrote:(May 27, 2014 at 8:20 pm)Artur Axmann Wrote: Yes, rational thinking can exist without believing in god ,but up to a point.
Rational thinking cannot be totally explained in materialistic terms because it's evolution cannot be explained soley on a purely natural basis.
Perception by evolutionary principles ,must evolve from sentient being or beings.
Human consciousness must serve the evolutionary process in ways other than the mechanical process of instinct.
Good and evil come about as a result and thusly form the religion basis to human existence.
Rational thinking builds upon itself. It pulls itself by its bootstraps so to speak. I believe in God, but I see no reason why rational thinking is dependent on God's existence any more than 2+2=4 depends on God's existence.
Rational thinking lies outside the realm of evolutionary biology.
And that's true no matter how it develops.
