(March 26, 2014 at 5:10 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: It strikes me that adding God to the admittedly thorny problem of explaining the interworking of brute facts adds - quite literally - nothing.
The one thing it does add is the theist feeling as if they've justified their beliefs and have somehow solved all of the problems that plague other worldviews, which is why I think that it's so popular. It allows them to feel as if they have solved certain conundrums, thus verifying their worldview, when in reality, all they've done is kick the can down the road.
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
