RE: Atheism and the existence of peanut butter
October 31, 2021 at 2:46 am
(This post was last modified: October 31, 2021 at 2:47 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 31, 2021 at 1:22 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:(October 28, 2021 at 4:59 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Deity was once conceived of as operating within natural law, and as an expression of natural law, itself. That's why they had fates. It's why christer god can't change his mind.
it seems highly unlikely to me that the concept of overarching natural law could predate the ideas that things happen due to inscrutable intervention by some mysterious agent.
The idea that they're even different things, that there's a split between nature and diety..is a relatively recent development. Ditto to it's inscrutability and mystery.
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