(November 16, 2011 at 8:12 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Science rightly cannot explore this area, without straying into metaphysics and non empiricism..
Science goes deep into the roots of its subjects and religion is based on empiricism.
The original idea of god was an empirical one. Legends from all over the world report coexistence of gods and men. Philosophers, having to work on the hypothesis that the original religious ideas were based on empiricism, feel obliged to explain the phenomenon.
The only explanation they can afford is that “The ancients were incapable of transcendental thinking and whatever they thought they described it in terms of empirical thinking.”
Scientist won’t buy, of course, because those incapable of imagining metaphysical gods cannot describe metaphysical gods.
Science, therefore, does not have to stray into metaphysics. The gods turned immaterial only when, obeying theologians, climbed the ladder to the heavens.
