RE: What are the Characteristics of a NT Christian?
April 14, 2017 at 6:49 pm
(This post was last modified: April 14, 2017 at 6:52 pm by Brian37.)
(April 14, 2017 at 4:18 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(April 14, 2017 at 1:55 pm)Harry Nevis Wrote: Just what is that probability? Since we have no evidence of anything supernatural, that dividing line must be a brick wall.
When first introduced Newton's law of gravity was considered supernatural because the prevailing wisdom at the time what that bodily interaction required physical things to bump against each other. Proponents of "naturalism" are really just explaining away the uncanny and inexplicable phenomena that do not fit the physical reductionist paradigm. Consider for a moment how the term materialism has changed over time in order to adapt it to new findings in physics. Anyone promoting 19th century materialism today would be laughed at. The 20th century version of materialism is becoming just as untenable and archaic. The more we learn about matter, the more it seems to dissolve into structured nothingness.
What the fuck does Newton have to do with proving your particular flavor of pet sky hero? YES He got lots of science correct, but he also postulated alchemy for a while which was garbage. If being smart constituted being right about all things all the time, then by proxy of your logic you should be a Muslim because Arabs invented algebra.
If you want a MODERN understanding of "something vs nothing" then you should consider the likes of Hawking and Lawrence Krauss.
Every religion has members who try to reach back in time after the fact to square modern scientific knowledge to their old claims. It does not work when any religion does it.
