RE: "How God got started", how god belief + basic reason + writing -> modern humans?
October 10, 2017 at 3:28 pm
(This post was last modified: October 10, 2017 at 3:34 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(October 9, 2017 at 10:03 pm)Whateverist Wrote: Those of us who do not start with an unseen, unmoved mover will never find one in our reality.
I've never seen a quark either but I've been told that we can deduce their existence from what can be seen.
(October 9, 2017 at 9:42 pm)Whateverist Wrote: What this author and I are after is a natural account of how the emergence of secular reasoning may have pushed polytheism to monotheism.
I do not have a problem with the notion that new intellectual tools could have changed how people relate with the world, including the Divine. To me that is not a challenge to theism. Philosophical reasoning just opens up another way of approaching the Divine.
Otherwise, I think the article is a train-wreck, jumping from thought to thought without any clear line of reasoning.
