(October 19, 2016 at 2:22 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I disagree that it's a cop out.
I'm with you here. I don't think it is a cop out at all. If that makes sense to a person, what business is it of mine? They don't owe me a rationalization.
(October 19, 2016 at 2:22 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Personally I think the belief that there is a supernatural supreme being who is responsible for putting our world into motion but doesn't necessarily care about what we do, is more plausible than not believing in any of that at all.
And that is your privilege to believe as you will. I just don't share that intuition.
(October 19, 2016 at 2:22 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I think to most of them, it also isn't about wishful thinking or there being a "point" to it. It just makes more sense to them that there is something out there that, unlike anything else in our natural world, supersedes the laws of nature and time and was able to put everything into motion. I think Einstein's views in regards to there being a god/s were kind of aimed in this direction as well.
And yet when do we ever see the natural order being set aside by some being for whom the natural order is optional? You read stores about it but we don't experience it first hand.
As for putting everything into motion .. so long as you have to assume something was already there to hit the start button, I find it simpler to think the world is natural all the way down. It seems to me that how things came to be as they are must always be understood in terms of prior states, not a blank slate.
