(March 18, 2015 at 8:42 pm)GriffinHunter Wrote: So, a recurring theme which I observe in the explanations here is the response to my admission that I can't wrap my mind around the issue. You guys say that it's natural to not be able to understand this stuff, there are a lot of unknowns and we really don't have answers, but reality is not constrained by our ability to grasp it; if something is true then it is true, whether we understand and acknowledge it or not.
My concern is that all of that sounds remarkably similar to what the theists tell me to believe- "God is real even if we cannot comprehend him. It may not all make sense but the fact that you can't wrap your mind around it logically or scientifically doesn't mean it is false."
No, the difference is when we say we don't understand it, it is because there isn't as yet enough rigorously examined evidence for us to understand it. We attribute nothing to that which we don't understand that is not supported by rigorously examined evidence. This way we have the potential to attain ever greater understanding as evidences are gathered.
When theists say they don't comprehend, they nonetheless attribute a whole lot of made up (father, son, goodness, etc) utter bullshit to it, supported by nothing more than other made up bullshit (bible). So they have no interest in further understanding what they don't comprehend, only in protecting the sanctity of some bullshit which by chance they have become indoctrinated in.
