(February 20, 2015 at 8:00 am)robvalue Wrote: Sure. I have no belief in anything supernatural or "woo" either. You cannot disprove intelligent design, but there is no need to. That's not how science works. Someone must bring their case, not hide it in a maze and demand you run through hoops trying to smoke it out. "I don't know" is a perfectly acceptable answer, and often the only honest one.
Soul, spirit, god, afterlife, "energy"...As far as I am concerned, there is no evidence these words mean anything more than as metaphors. Metaphors I use, of course. They are useful in a literary sense.
Yes "I don't know" is certainly an acceptable answer. But the evidence is in that god claims are really nothing more than our species gap filling psychologically. "God" is really nothing more than our species narcissism and anthropomorphic cartoon reflections of our own desires.
It explains nothing other than our species ability to be imaginative.
