(July 30, 2013 at 11:41 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(July 30, 2013 at 10:41 pm)popeyespappy Wrote: Really Chad, argument from personal incredulity?Not so much incredulity as a recognition that reality has an intelligible order that, in my opinion, confirms Providential governance.
The only real difference between an atheistic interpretation of natural law and a theistic one is this. For the atheist, lawful order is inherent to the physical universe for no particular reason; it just is. For the theist, lawful order is intentionally imposed on the physical universe by a rational intellect.
For no reason. He just does.
Quote:I prefer thinking that things are the way they are for a reason and that inspires great curiosity to ponder those reasons more fully. Saying that something "just is" puts an end to inquiry.
Saying "it is like this because it suits my preferences regarding what I want it to be". And it's a "just is" statement to boot.
Quote:It seems to me the better opinion to hold is the one that encourages the pursuit of knowledge rather than the one that stops it at some arbitrary limit.
Which is precisely why "God did it" is the worse opinion. God is the only arbitrary limit in this entire scenario.
