RE: What distinguishes a fantasy book from the bible?
July 30, 2011 at 4:33 pm
(This post was last modified: July 30, 2011 at 4:39 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Again, subjective decisions (like most of your objections) are the realm of human thought for the moment. A special blend of reason and emotion. They are not objectively true.
Life is indeed the purpose of life. Every cell in your body is engaged life, and the perpetuation of life, 24 hours a day. Whether or not that satisfies you, is, again, subjective.
Science can answer to theism in general, it is deism that it currently does not address, because deism is a position taken explicitly to avoid contradicting scientific discovery. Christians are not deists, they are theists. There's a difference.
We may feel lucky to be here, a happy accident, but that is a subjective description. The sun, the earth, the initial composition and eventuall environment were not accidental, nor were they lucky, or designed. These are words which do not accurately describe the state of the cosmos, and why would they, being that we have only understood much of this for a few short decades. Using arguments, or terms that were designed to convey things like fate/luck, intent/design, and chaos/accident doesn't do our modern understanding justice. You are projecting facets of your personality unto your external environment, it's okay, we all do it, but it is not, factually speaking, accurate.
Life is indeed the purpose of life. Every cell in your body is engaged life, and the perpetuation of life, 24 hours a day. Whether or not that satisfies you, is, again, subjective.
Science can answer to theism in general, it is deism that it currently does not address, because deism is a position taken explicitly to avoid contradicting scientific discovery. Christians are not deists, they are theists. There's a difference.
We may feel lucky to be here, a happy accident, but that is a subjective description. The sun, the earth, the initial composition and eventuall environment were not accidental, nor were they lucky, or designed. These are words which do not accurately describe the state of the cosmos, and why would they, being that we have only understood much of this for a few short decades. Using arguments, or terms that were designed to convey things like fate/luck, intent/design, and chaos/accident doesn't do our modern understanding justice. You are projecting facets of your personality unto your external environment, it's okay, we all do it, but it is not, factually speaking, accurate.
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