RE: Why does science always upstage God?
August 21, 2021 at 9:30 am
(This post was last modified: August 21, 2021 at 9:35 am by Mashmont.)
(August 21, 2021 at 8:59 am)Ahriman Wrote: You're right about the biases. I just think in terms of magic, miracles, angels, demons, all that stuff. My tendency to think that way, actually became more pronounced after I left Catholicism, almost as if God was saying, "No Jacob, come back, we need you". I used to have friends and a social life, so maybe back then, I didn't feel as much of a need to indulge in magical thinking, because I was more fulfilled?
Miracles are simply science which we do not yet have the intelligence to understand, and perhaps never will.
Prior to Edison capturing light in the electric lightbulb from the ether, that would have been perceived as a miracle. But when you understand enough science, the miracle becomes understandable.
(August 21, 2021 at 5:32 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(August 21, 2021 at 5:25 am)Mashmont Wrote: Oh, ok. Thanks.
I don’t get it.
Dachshunds are a human-created breed. German dog breeders took multiple generations of artificial selection to come up with the animal you know as a dachshund.
Boru
Ah, I see. Thank you.
(August 21, 2021 at 7:12 am)vulcanlogician Wrote:(August 20, 2021 at 11:15 pm)Mashmont Wrote: The best proof of God are the astoundingly great and accomplished lives of His most devoted believers; the canonized saints of the Catholic Church.
But what about figures like Gandhi? Do they count as proof of Vishnu?
Gandhi, while a man of accomplishment, had blemishes in his personal life, including a love affair with a woman not his wife. Had he been Catholic, he probably would not have been canonized as a saint.
(August 21, 2021 at 7:24 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: The cannonized saints? We talking about the ones who flew around churches and made animals talk...or? I don't wanna be completely dismissive here, and I suspect that those guys probably handed out alot of bread or made alot of bread for the catholic church. That's amazing, in it's own right - but they lose me when they get to the whole verified miracles thing.
I can't think of any canonized saint who was involved in making money for the Catholic Church. They were all either very poor or renounced their family wealth. But they performed outsized accomplishments of good for mankind.