RE: God vs Science
December 27, 2012 at 1:18 am
(This post was last modified: December 27, 2012 at 1:21 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Why is it important that the god described did not create the earth in 6 days by breathing magic words onto the skein of the void? Why does the narrative collapse at the point of unsubstantiated stories (and is that really another story altogether)? If not the god that did these things then what god? Some other god, some other name? Or do you choose (at least for a time) to carry that name along to the next idea of a god. A pleasant artifact of an unremembered faith?
The physical world may not tell us stories about gods, perhaps because there are no stories to tell, but those stories of gods nevertheless propose to tell us of the physical world. The damning indictment in all of this is not that the physical world does not tell us something about gods in and of itself, even though the narratives are arranged such that they -should-, but that these narratives of god have failed to tell us about the physical world, which, again, by their very own arrangement they -must-.
Now, the world between your ears, where uncertainty seems to bear unlimited possibility and with it an easily won credulity, a world in which the phrase "a creation can never disprove it's creator" is something more profound or meaningful than a nonsensical jumble of words......well, gods can tell us plenty about that world.
Your closing remarks here are seriously going to be "we don't know - therefore god"?
The physical world may not tell us stories about gods, perhaps because there are no stories to tell, but those stories of gods nevertheless propose to tell us of the physical world. The damning indictment in all of this is not that the physical world does not tell us something about gods in and of itself, even though the narratives are arranged such that they -should-, but that these narratives of god have failed to tell us about the physical world, which, again, by their very own arrangement they -must-.
Now, the world between your ears, where uncertainty seems to bear unlimited possibility and with it an easily won credulity, a world in which the phrase "a creation can never disprove it's creator" is something more profound or meaningful than a nonsensical jumble of words......well, gods can tell us plenty about that world.
Your closing remarks here are seriously going to be "we don't know - therefore god"?
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