(December 27, 2021 at 3:32 am)Belacqua Wrote: I think that by "account for its own existence" he means that there is nothing within nature which explains why it exists to begin with. Science describes the causes and effects within nature, but not the cause of nature itself.
You would be surprised what science can describe if you would listen to scientists and not theologians.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
