(October 1, 2014 at 7:00 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: I took these statements from @SecularOutpost (on Twitter). I figured some of ya'll might have interesting things to say about them.
"Many arguments against theism have the form "Why would God do/allow X?" A common answer is "There's an unknown purpose.
Many arguments against naturalism have the form "How could X be possible without God?" Common answer: "There's an unknown explanation.
naturalism --> unknown explanations
theism --> unknown purposes"
The difference is that the point of saying "unknown purpose" is - "have faith, it'll be revealed eventually by someone else if he wants to" and the point of saying "unknown explanation" is - "keep looking for answers and feel free to figure it out yourself".
