RE: Why Would God Hide?
November 11, 2014 at 10:28 am
(This post was last modified: November 11, 2014 at 10:32 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 10, 2014 at 8:25 pm)snowtracks Wrote: René Descartes reasoned that the 5 senses are unreliable -Which was a good start, but that reasoning alone was insufficient. We'd have to wait awhile yet to determine whether or not they indeed where unreliable, and if so, why? We have (at least some) of those answers now.
Quote:'Knowledge of the nature of reality derives from ideas of the intellect, not the senses. '-those ideas are based upon the data mining of the 5 senses. For better and for worse "intellect" turned out to be just as unreliable, and for the same reasons (to be fair to our senses, it's often "intellect" that ports in the unreliability - our eyes are poorly constructed to begin with....and then our brain further complicates this by simply tampering with the "image"). If you're looking at a photoshopped picture you not only have to worry about the reliability of the camera but also the reliability of the photographer. So while within the formal system we call logic we can see that our ability to flesh out a concept might be lacking, a limit upon -what we can know- using that formal system, we also have additional physical "barriers to knowledge" (I'd call the barriers in logic equivalent to a physical barrier myself, I'm of the opinion that they relate to deficiencies in hardware).
Quote:God is an inference to the best explanation. scientists sometimes postulate ideas that are unobservable in order to explain the data that is observed for instance dark energy.You can postulate whatever you like. Dark energy is a term for an unknown "something" that has -observable effects on the known-. Were it not for those observable effects, there would be no "dark energy". If you'd like to level the ground between god and dark energy, you're going to need to do work.
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