RE: How to easily defeat any argument for God
August 5, 2019 at 12:45 pm
(This post was last modified: August 5, 2019 at 12:46 pm by Alan V.)
(August 5, 2019 at 10:37 am)Acrobat Wrote: That really depends on how you see reality, as an existential nihilist, or as someone who sees it as endowed with an intrinsic purpose of some sort of the other. In the latter reality looks something like a novel, a story, in which we are both it's characters and readers. It's from that nature of this novel, that they attempt to derive the nature of it's author. If we say this reality possess something like an objective good, that we ought to be, one might say this authors cares about Goodness, or is Goodness itself.
I'm an atheist who is neither an existentialist or a nihilist, which is why I pointed out the false dichotomy.
I understand where you are coming from, as I spent many years trying to make sense of the world that way myself. I finally gave up though, and had to settle for relative meanings. That was not my first choice. So yes, I get the attractiveness of the theistic picture. I just don't think it's supported by the facts. Our evolved human nature, rather than our mere preferences or nature as a whole, is what makes certain things objectively good or bad for us. They are the things which help us thrive or hurt us, and they are all quite species-centric.