RE: What do you know about God and afterlife?
July 15, 2012 at 10:34 pm
(This post was last modified: July 15, 2012 at 10:36 pm by Justtristo.)
My philosophical system is metaphysical naturalism which has the assumption that there is nothing but natural elements, principles, and relations of the kind studied by natural science.
There sheer success of the use of methodological naturalism (in which all scientific endeavors—all hypotheses and events—are to be explained and tested by reference to natural causes and events) helps bolster immensely my assumption that metaphysical naturalism is superior to any other metaphysical system.
Basically what I have outlined above is how I know what I am going to give as answers to the questions of the existence or non-existence of a deity and whether our consciousness survives the death of the brain.
Firstly, since science has managed to come so far in explaining how the universe works (including how the universe got started in the first place), much better than any religion in comparably short length of the time Homo Sapiens has been on this earth. That would make the probability of the existence of any deity (much less the one of the bible) astronomically small. Indeed science has had managed to squeeze god into narrower and narrower gaps with each scientific discovery.
Secondly, science has made a good case that the human consciousness is wholly dependent on the brain and it is extremely likely that once the brain dies, human consciousness ceases to exist.
There sheer success of the use of methodological naturalism (in which all scientific endeavors—all hypotheses and events—are to be explained and tested by reference to natural causes and events) helps bolster immensely my assumption that metaphysical naturalism is superior to any other metaphysical system.
Basically what I have outlined above is how I know what I am going to give as answers to the questions of the existence or non-existence of a deity and whether our consciousness survives the death of the brain.
Firstly, since science has managed to come so far in explaining how the universe works (including how the universe got started in the first place), much better than any religion in comparably short length of the time Homo Sapiens has been on this earth. That would make the probability of the existence of any deity (much less the one of the bible) astronomically small. Indeed science has had managed to squeeze god into narrower and narrower gaps with each scientific discovery.
Secondly, science has made a good case that the human consciousness is wholly dependent on the brain and it is extremely likely that once the brain dies, human consciousness ceases to exist.
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