(March 16, 2012 at 7:15 am)tackattack Wrote: If the question of our existence is relevant, why is postulating a possible solution, limiting to intellect in any way?Because "God did it" shuts down all other lines of enquiry and ends the investigation into reality before its even commenced. Why else do you think a good deal of religious people swagger about invincibly thinking their god (and by extension their follower) has all the answers?
Quote:You haven't established clearly how discerning fact from fantasy sabotages one's capacity to learn and acquire new knowledge.I never said that tack. Check my post again please.
If I wasn't 'concise' enough then allow me to expand. Uncritically accepting any extraordinary claim such as a deity exists without verifying it first, requires a suspension of critical thinking, that can damage one's filter for evidence, whether open-minded or not, resulting in a person allowing more invalid ideas and arguments refuted by science to become accepted.
The overwhelming baggage of that deity, the seemingly endless claims about the god, both local and foreign, and also all the contradictory claims about it, are all taken on-board without question as well. In the end they are a mess that can't tell fact from fiction any more. This ultimately leads to the sabotage of one's capacity to learn and acquire new knowledge.
An open mind with no demand for evidence will let in a lot of rubbish. A closed mind with no demand for evidence will learn nothing.
Quote:If I believed in unicorns,That's asinine. Unicorns and gods are not even in the same plane of thought. They're separate concepts entirely. You cannot hope to compare those two vastly different claims and except them to carry the same weight.
