RE: Can you make a God claim?
January 12, 2015 at 10:16 pm
(This post was last modified: January 12, 2015 at 10:22 pm by Mudhammam.)
(January 12, 2015 at 8:06 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Not really. The scientific enterprise strives to uncover the fundamental natures of things in the physical universe. It doesn't say how it is possible for fundamental things to actually have natures....except when it does, as in discovery. Thanks to science, not ancient stories perpetuated by an individual or club insisting that an ad hoc interpretation of experience contains a metaphysical truth about the Cosmos---you can point to just as many obviously erroneous philosophies and faiths as I can---we know a lot about the nature of things and how they came to exist as they do; thanks to sense experience and an objectively veritable method for testing the probability of mutually exclusive dogmas and whether they have any bearing on our own experience of reality; teaching yourself to think objectively about the world takes practice, while you can't even put your ideas on the thief's cross with the hope that true knowledge is born, a path to progress and a larger mental map drawn in abstract by the brain. Metaphysics that can't explain anything, because they lack any reference to reality as it can be objectively tested is no different than an obscure thought in your mind trusting itself or someone else as equally ignorant about themselves and the world as it truly is. Don't forget, it made you before you made it.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza