(March 10, 2013 at 11:39 pm)jstrodel Wrote: You didn't prove that God has no explanatory power, you just claimed that God did.
Okay then, let me ask you this: how does saying "god did it" enhance our knowledge of anything? That's what I mean by explanatory power. How does saying "it was god what did that" get us any closer to explaining how that thing is true?
You say god created the universe. Alright, fine: how does saying that explain to us how the universe was made? Or why it was made as it is?
When you say that god did something, the problem is that you're using it as an excuse not to look any further. You're fine with just saying "space magic," because the moment someone actually investigates, historically they've found one hundred percent of the time that god did not, in fact, do it.
Quote:It is wrong to compare Christianity to "Yog Sothoth" because Christianity is the most influential ideology that has ever existed, far more influential than any of the disciplines that you mentioned whose modern synthesis mostly goes back to the 19th century.
Ah, so the thing that makes your religion true is its age and influence on the physical world? Sweet, I guess all those proto-religions that predate christianity are more true than it. And more influential, since there has to have been a first religion, and by necessity that would have been the precursor to all the others. Better go searching for some nameless animal deity before we do the same for your god, then.
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