Scientific knowledge versus spiritual knowledge

[robvalue]

MK: When you have to rely on "dark forces" and "demons" to explain why things aren't the way you think they should be, then maybe that's a sign your position is not as strong as you think. I mean, I could just say the same of you. I can say Islam is just the work of "dark forces" because it's obviously wrong. It's a meaningless cop-out. Just assuming you are 100% right, yet having to give extra supernatural explanations to make reality fit, is not consistent.

In my case, I don't give a flying monkeys. If I found out there was a god, great. Makes no difference. So I'm not "denying" it, because it's of no importance. Of course there would be scientific questions I'd like to put to him if he was available for comment, and I'd like to study him.

You could get angry over scepticism I suppose. But you're right, getting mad over atheism (or even plain theism) doesn't make sense.


I'm not too sure what you were referring to in my post, but it seemed like a lovely compliment!

Rob, your posts have a knack for hitting the sweet spot between great intelligence and plain old common sense! [emoji106]

I read this out to my wife, as I was so proud, and she fell about laughing. I knew she would

I do quite well on certain specialist subjects, but in real life I'm something of a bumbling monkey.