Drew... drew, drew, drew, drew....
I'm not going to quote your huge post, there's no need.
I'm not going through it point by point... others have done that for me.
I'm just going to say your whole post is one big "god of the gaps" argument, while trying to shift the burden of proof to "naturalism".
And I'm also going to elaborate a bit on what Luke said, about the history of the god of the gaps argument.
Some hundreds of years ago, people believed that almost everything in the world was the product of some god. The spirit world, where each animal, plant, mountain, cloud, moon, sun has a spirit or is itself a god... only humans are subject to those spirits.
Thor or Zeus as gods of thunder are good examples of civilizations where we can actually find a god responsible for a natural unexplained event.
This notion persisted in people's minds throughout judaism, christianity, islam... only recently has the natural world been shown to be "mindless forces" at work. So mindless they are predictable. And the rules of this predictability has been called science.
As science establishes these "rules of Nature", the god-did-it explanation shrinks in scope.
What was once explained by the existence of a god, became explained by simple mindless forces. The god explanation shrank into the gaps in the scientific explanation of the world.
And those are the gaps you examine here:
- Where/how/why did the universe come into being?
- How did life on Earth come into being?
- How did intelligence evolve?
I can't say for certain that these questions will someday be answered by science, but the god-did-it track record shows that it is a very weak position that has, so far, yielded at every single corner of knowledge.
The History that Luke wants you to research tells us that "god-did-it" is a shrinking proposition which tends to zero.
Why some people cling to it is beyond me... I guess that's because I'm close-minded...
I'm not going to quote your huge post, there's no need.
I'm not going through it point by point... others have done that for me.
I'm just going to say your whole post is one big "god of the gaps" argument, while trying to shift the burden of proof to "naturalism".
And I'm also going to elaborate a bit on what Luke said, about the history of the god of the gaps argument.
Some hundreds of years ago, people believed that almost everything in the world was the product of some god. The spirit world, where each animal, plant, mountain, cloud, moon, sun has a spirit or is itself a god... only humans are subject to those spirits.
Thor or Zeus as gods of thunder are good examples of civilizations where we can actually find a god responsible for a natural unexplained event.
This notion persisted in people's minds throughout judaism, christianity, islam... only recently has the natural world been shown to be "mindless forces" at work. So mindless they are predictable. And the rules of this predictability has been called science.
As science establishes these "rules of Nature", the god-did-it explanation shrinks in scope.
What was once explained by the existence of a god, became explained by simple mindless forces. The god explanation shrank into the gaps in the scientific explanation of the world.
And those are the gaps you examine here:
- Where/how/why did the universe come into being?
- How did life on Earth come into being?
- How did intelligence evolve?
I can't say for certain that these questions will someday be answered by science, but the god-did-it track record shows that it is a very weak position that has, so far, yielded at every single corner of knowledge.
The History that Luke wants you to research tells us that "god-did-it" is a shrinking proposition which tends to zero.
Why some people cling to it is beyond me... I guess that's because I'm close-minded...
