RE: Do you ever doubt your atheism?
August 16, 2014 at 10:46 am
(This post was last modified: August 16, 2014 at 10:59 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 16, 2014 at 3:46 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "putting the feelers out" but no, I'm not suggesting God as a theory in any sense but as a title that properly encompasses the infinitely incomprehensible that our philosophy and sciences seem directed towards as the source of everything (I don't think that can be captured by a scientific theory, btw), this substance or whatever you may have it being: unconditioned, necessary, free, and in some way separate from the physical, spacetime Universe.It's just an idiom. So, not so much a theory as the sum total of what we do not know that has those attributes? I'm not sure why we would conceive of that as a substance or even something that could can be encapsulated by a singular title, why it would be some singular -whatever- instead of many different things (especially in the case of necessity), why it would be separate- or "free" (what does that even mean?), or unconditioned- or, why we would conceive of it at all. How does one go about describing something after claiming that it is "infinitely incomprehensible"? That's wholly and entirely entirely illogical, so I don't see how a case for it could be mounting (either in philosophy or in science). Seems like you might have twisted yourself into a conceptual knot in an attempt to salvage a word and some choice attribute claims.
So, I guess, more specifically, no- I do not wonder whether or not what someone might (incomprehensibly) describe as "infinitely incomprehensible" is a god, I don't wonder whether "it" has those attributes, or that anything has those attributes in some singular sense. I do wonder about the sense of the claim though. How did you arrive at such a place?
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