RE: Resoning for belief in God
May 12, 2009 at 10:41 am
(This post was last modified: May 12, 2009 at 10:42 am by lilphil1989.)
I agree very much with the last questioner.
When someone says that they think there is creator god, whilst I may think otherwise and disagree with their reasoning (and of course, challenge them on it), I can believe they are being, at least partially, intellectually honest.
The problem is when you go from saying I think the universe was created by something external, to saying that it must then be the god of the old testament, zeus, the FSM or whatever, this is what he/she/it thinks, this is what it wants you to do and this is how it wants you to behave. It's a total non-sequiter, and something I can have no respect for whatsoever.
When someone says that they think there is creator god, whilst I may think otherwise and disagree with their reasoning (and of course, challenge them on it), I can believe they are being, at least partially, intellectually honest.
The problem is when you go from saying I think the universe was created by something external, to saying that it must then be the god of the old testament, zeus, the FSM or whatever, this is what he/she/it thinks, this is what it wants you to do and this is how it wants you to behave. It's a total non-sequiter, and something I can have no respect for whatsoever.
Galileo was a man of science oppressed by the irrational and superstitious. Today, he is used by the irrational and superstitious who claim they are being oppressed by science - Mark Crislip
