RE: Questionnaire about life (for academic purposes)
July 21, 2020 at 10:57 pm
(This post was last modified: July 21, 2020 at 10:57 pm by GrandizerII.)
(July 21, 2020 at 10:26 pm)halos Wrote: 7. What is your view concerning the existence of God or the nature of ultimate reality?[/size]
I don't have a logical problem with the existence of some God, so long as we have good reasons to believe that whatever entity exists that you're calling God is plausible. I'm an atheist partly because I just haven't seen good arguments for the type of entity that I would honestly consider to be "God". Is there a First Cause out there in the Aristotelian sense? Maybe, but that is not enough to be of concern for me as an atheist.
As for ultimate reality, I don't hold to any cosmogonal/cosmological worldview with strong conviction. It would be foolish for anyone (theist or atheist) to do so. But I do like the idea that reality basically amounts to this: if a world is metaphysically possible, it actually exists "out there". Meaning that, ultimately, all metaphysically possible worlds exist, and we live in one such world. This, to me, seems to be the most "non-arbitrary" view one can get.
I'm not attempting the other questions because trying to answer those would bore the hell out of me.
