(April 19, 2013 at 2:15 pm)Love Wrote: There is also something deep inside my consciousness about Christianity that feels "right" and "true" at the same time, which is significant to me.
What reason do you have to trust these feelings? The history of the human race is littered with people that were led astray by such feelings, which is why there is emphasis put upon repeatable, verifiable evidence. Our brains are capable of all kinds of strange trickery, which I readily admit isn't proof that your experience isn't real. We do know, however, that our brains are far from fool-proof, and coming to the conclusion that there is anything beyond the material brain must be understood that that conclusion itself is being filtered by that less than fool-proof brain.
With all that we know about the fallibility of the brain, what makes you trust it when you come to an unverifiable conclusion?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
