RE: Q about arguments for God's existence.
June 20, 2015 at 1:08 am
(This post was last modified: June 20, 2015 at 1:25 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Yes, the church does rule out evolution. If I explain this to you...will you make an attempt to give up either your "belief" in evolution or your fealty to the church? The pope may be super excited, but the church is super-ignorant, and the current pope cannot change what has already been infallibly decided...now can he?
Your definition of a god as a supernatural agent has been priveledged...but it isn't the only definition. "Supernatural" -as a category- doesn't even make sense in some belief structures.....so what gets put in that box and what doesn't is a complete non-starter..in those cases. There is no split, no distinction, no "super" world to our "natural world"...only "the world". Once upon a time.........this appears to have been the only show in town. Supernatural, as a category, is relatively recent. It simply -couldn't- have meant anything before we had some idea of what the "natural" world was. One day a theist will be excusing the lack of evidence for her god not because it is super natural...but because it is -hyper- natural..on and on, so forth, ad infinitum.
Your definition of a god as a supernatural agent has been priveledged...but it isn't the only definition. "Supernatural" -as a category- doesn't even make sense in some belief structures.....so what gets put in that box and what doesn't is a complete non-starter..in those cases. There is no split, no distinction, no "super" world to our "natural world"...only "the world". Once upon a time.........this appears to have been the only show in town. Supernatural, as a category, is relatively recent. It simply -couldn't- have meant anything before we had some idea of what the "natural" world was. One day a theist will be excusing the lack of evidence for her god not because it is super natural...but because it is -hyper- natural..on and on, so forth, ad infinitum.
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