RE: Can't prove the supernatural God
May 31, 2016 at 5:27 pm
(This post was last modified: May 31, 2016 at 5:33 pm by Pat Mustard.)
This whole supernatural thing is bullshit anyway. Prior to 1859 no serious theologian would hace considered god to be outside nature, because they reckoned him the embodiment and regulator of it. What happened in 1859? A small little publication called On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. For about two hundred years at that stage science had been chipping away at god (most notably through geology, Darwin's first love, showing the creation stories in genesis to be a pile of shit), but religion was relatively secure in the position Newton had given god as the creator and policeman of the natural laws.
But with natural selection, Darwin kicked away that support, by showing a mechanism for one of the major areas in science that had no need for a god. The clever theologians now realised that even if Darwin was wrong, the sheer fact that a plausible and workable theory could be thought up which removed god altogether in biology was enough to destroy any pretension to god being a natural being. Thus the idea of removing him from nature, giving him an undetectable effect on reality and all that malarkey was born.
But unfortunately that approach doesn't work, because placing god outside nature, outside detection is admitting that there is nothing behind the claim, no evidence and no possibility of producing evidence (for if evidence of got were to appear, does anyone think.the religionists would keep calling him supernatural?). So instead all that's left to "prove" god is special pleading like "everthing must have a creator to exist. But not god because...look over there a flying monkey!"
But with natural selection, Darwin kicked away that support, by showing a mechanism for one of the major areas in science that had no need for a god. The clever theologians now realised that even if Darwin was wrong, the sheer fact that a plausible and workable theory could be thought up which removed god altogether in biology was enough to destroy any pretension to god being a natural being. Thus the idea of removing him from nature, giving him an undetectable effect on reality and all that malarkey was born.
But unfortunately that approach doesn't work, because placing god outside nature, outside detection is admitting that there is nothing behind the claim, no evidence and no possibility of producing evidence (for if evidence of got were to appear, does anyone think.the religionists would keep calling him supernatural?). So instead all that's left to "prove" god is special pleading like "everthing must have a creator to exist. But not god because...look over there a flying monkey!"
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