RE: If God of Abraham is true, then why didnt he use his intelligent design to make a new
June 26, 2017 at 11:15 am
(June 26, 2017 at 4:53 am)bennyboy Wrote: I'm fine with the idea of life-as-test, because that's how science sees it, too: essentially, our personal faculties are put into the environment, and we attempt to process it and interact with it.
A murdered baby for sure is being tested: its skin is being tested against the sharpness of a knife, and it will unsurprisingly fail that test and be extinguished from existence.
The idea of a test of faith doesn't make sense, though, since you have to have very well-developed faculties even to conceive of the problem you are faced with.
I think you're using the wrong terms. Under theism, life is a test, something being imposed upon us with a desired result as the outcome and a penalty for failure. Under anything rational, life is an EXPERIMENT. Nothing predetermined, no end goal, lots of unknowns with no preparation. None of that is how tests go. I know I'm mincing words but I think the DEFINITIONS bear so much difference that it had to be corrected. I won't even harp on about how fucked up I think it is that you had the bad taste of using it in the same sentence as science.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
