(January 11, 2014 at 2:32 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: If God in the generic sense existed, why should anyone care? I'm studying a little about the pragmatists approach to truth claims. It says that a statement is meaningless if it doesn't make any difference on how one experiences reality or how one would make choices if that statement were known to be true.
Let's say the statement "God exists" is a true statement. So what? Why does knowing he exists matters?
You mean if a god exists, but interacts with this planet as much as what we see it interacting... aka, nothing at all... is that it?
Should we care? Well, we are curious beasts... we want to know... At least for that.
Why should we care if there are black holes?
Why should we care if dark matter is for real?
Why should we care about the Big Bang and if universal expansion will be going on forever or if it will reverse, at some point?
Provided we knew there was a god, but couldn't tell which one... for one, atheists would become scarce.... belief/faith would be rendered obsolete... it would take a few generations, though...
