RE: The Fifth of the Five Ways
January 3, 2023 at 1:18 pm
(This post was last modified: January 3, 2023 at 1:34 pm by Anomalocaris.)
why would it be worth anyone’s time at all to even check for compatibility between the renting of an theologian from a superstitious age and the actual material discovery made in the millennium since?
if it is not compatible, it is no surprise. he could have had no clue what his “theology” in its fabrication, needed to appear to be compatible with. it is not clear if he even thought make belief certainties of theology needed to worry about conflict with ascertainable, if as yet un-ascertained, reality. it would be no surprise if he didn’t believe what had not yet been ascertained by those who came before can in principle be ascertained by those who came after.
if it is compatible, so what, he could not have known, and merely got lucky. A million cavemen navel gazing is bound to lead to some utterances that seems compatible with some particular discovery made millennia later.
Work in the capacity of theologian is by definition not a step on the way to greater material knowledge but a an overreaching step in an orthogonal direction that largely live in fear that further material would cause its own overreach to be found out.
if it is not compatible, it is no surprise. he could have had no clue what his “theology” in its fabrication, needed to appear to be compatible with. it is not clear if he even thought make belief certainties of theology needed to worry about conflict with ascertainable, if as yet un-ascertained, reality. it would be no surprise if he didn’t believe what had not yet been ascertained by those who came before can in principle be ascertained by those who came after.
if it is compatible, so what, he could not have known, and merely got lucky. A million cavemen navel gazing is bound to lead to some utterances that seems compatible with some particular discovery made millennia later.
Work in the capacity of theologian is by definition not a step on the way to greater material knowledge but a an overreaching step in an orthogonal direction that largely live in fear that further material would cause its own overreach to be found out.
