RE: God: No magic required
February 3, 2014 at 4:20 pm
(This post was last modified: February 3, 2014 at 4:21 pm by Mister Agenda.)
(January 31, 2014 at 9:51 pm)lweisenthal Wrote: (3) Do the "clinical trial." Pick out a couple or three religions with convenient branch offices. Go to the services, as participatory theater. Suspend disbelief. Participate. See what happens. It's not really all that different from setting up an array of radio telescopes to intercept radio waves emanating from outer space, from postulated inhabited planets. There's no evidence at all that such extra-terrestrial life exists, but it's possible, and legitimate scientists have found it worth exploring.
It's different from what scientists do in this respect: you can find anything you're looking for in your own head, whether it really exists or not. You're suggesting we jump down the rabbit hole of trying to convince ourselves something is true. That's not seeking, that's self-induced gullibility.
