(June 18, 2012 at 6:47 am)Norfolk And Chance Wrote: They're evidentialists? Wtf is an "evidentialist"? Is it even a real word? Anyhow, I'm presuming it means they value evidence - if so, how come they're theists?
Why call ourselves “theists” at all if we’re not supernatural, otherworldly believers? Simply this:
All theological “isms” (e.g., theism, deism, pantheism, atheism) came into being long before we had an evolutionary understanding of emergence. Therefore, all such concepts are outdated, misleading, and unnecessarily divisive if they are not redefined and reinterpreted in an evolutionary context. Other terms that have been offered in addition to “New Theist” include “evolutionary theist,” “evolutionary humanist,” “post-theist,” “mytheist,” and “creatheist” (pronounced variously, and humorously, as “crea-theist” or “cree-atheist”).
Yeah good question. That's a rather shaky explanation they have given in my opinion.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
