RE: Does a natural "god" maybe exist?
November 23, 2022 at 11:10 pm
(This post was last modified: November 23, 2022 at 11:20 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I feel like we're not taking the idea of natural divinity seriously in this, more that we're using the term as a stand-in for the usual collection of pixies. For what it's worth, nature as divine has a leg up on pixies called the same - particularly in that it doesn't need to be proven to exist...certainly not to anyone who would take it's existence, itself, as the evidence for a god. Nature is observed, and observing nature, human nature a part of that whole, a natural god does explain human belief in gods succinctly and without any additional pretense or premises. I doubt we could come up with any god concept that amounts to more than a tiny morsel of observed nature, particularly given how little of it our minds are capable of perceiving. When you think about it, the pixies aren't even a morsel of nature, they're a fraction of us, which is itself a fraction of nature.
If we want to posit nature as divine, metaphysically ultimate - then we have no need for spirits or animating entities of any kind. The OP question being reduced to, could there be pixies..in nature? Meh, sure- and there are, tucked away in one quiet little corner of one species among who knows how many others on a single rock floating through the endless sky, at least. Outside of that?
Nope. We're a sufficient explanation for, a necessary condition of, and causal to their existence. They literally couldn't be anywhere else.
If we want to posit nature as divine, metaphysically ultimate - then we have no need for spirits or animating entities of any kind. The OP question being reduced to, could there be pixies..in nature? Meh, sure- and there are, tucked away in one quiet little corner of one species among who knows how many others on a single rock floating through the endless sky, at least. Outside of that?
Nope. We're a sufficient explanation for, a necessary condition of, and causal to their existence. They literally couldn't be anywhere else.
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