RE: New Age woo, pantheism, "connected"
March 13, 2015 at 10:31 am
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2015 at 10:32 am by Faith No More.)
(March 13, 2015 at 8:29 am)ChadWooters Wrote: I'm not seeing any lines of demarcation between things. How can you be so sure that everything is discrete? How do you identify one sensible body from another? Don't bother answering...as an atheist your answers won't make any sense.
That doesn't bother me, because if that is true, as a theist, your answers won't make any sense, either. Any philosophical conundrum that comes about from rational, natural observation cannot suddenly be undone with an injection of the supernatural. The universe is messy and trying to rationalize it all with a human mind is equally so. Claiming supernatural influence, however, isn't a philosophical get our of jail free card.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell