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I do not find it inconceivable that nature is a part of god.
(and, we don't really understand all of nature yet)
(important step?)
I do not agree.
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DL
How so? belief is how and you can still follow with true science.
There is no such thing as hell. So says my favority Bishop.
You are correct that a good god would not punish us for being and doing what he as a creator god would have put into us.
That supernatural god, of course, does not exist. Nature is our creator and not some guy in the sky.
I am please that you se you morals as superior to mine as I have a hard time getting believers to talk of morals. They are not good at it and that is why they follow immoral gods like Yahweh and Allah.
Which particular moral tenet of mine do you find inferior to yours?
Who is your god?
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DL
Facts show a lie or a truth. Not a belief. As you state, belief is a motivator. A motivator is not a fact.
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DL
I bow to no one or no thang... i am but a gear in the clock-work of life... an that you believe thers no such thang as hell -- i have no reason to believe that you'r morals are not at least as good as mine... an i suspect that mine are beter than any other religous/spiritual person ive seen post here at Sciforums.!!!
Belief conjunctures with science. They tell the truth when they work together.
The spiritual thinkers do not usually agree with the religious on moral grounds.
The religious are into Inquisitions and Jihads while the spiritual are men and women of peace who have rejected religious dogma and the intolerance that goes with following the old religions.
Your ignorance and incapabilities don't seem to be persuasive evidence of anything. Especially not when combined with notions such as humans - all of them? - "stagnating" in some new and vague way.Yes there is.
Humanity has been stagnating with their immoral demiurges for a long time now and I do not see any new gods stepping up to challenge the old ones.
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But there are truths in the stories of them. http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/35/aesops-fables/654/the-nurse-and-the-wolf/There are no true facts in talking animals or a bunch of virgins awaiting us in heaven.
Science would be more of an instigation for new invention of deity, than a preventer of such. The inadequacy, or better: unsuitability, of the former conceptions of deity in the face of the needs of scientifically sophisticated people and the realities of their world does not obviate those needs or banish those realities.The reason why we stopped inventing gods, is actually very simple. Science in all its forms
I believe I have shown adequately why science and knowledge have done the opposite.Science would be more of an instigation for new invention of deity, than a preventer of such. The inadequacy, or better: unsuitability, of the former conceptions of deity in the face of the needs of scientifically sophisticated people and the realities of their world does not obviate those needs or banish those realities.
What you have shown is that science and knowledge have undermined some existing deities.I believe I have shown adequately why science and knowledge have done the opposite.
Actually any need of any deity.What you have shown is that science and knowledge have undermined some existing deities.
Explaining physical phenomena has never been the primary role of deity among human beings. Had humans ever really needed Gods for that, they would have been dead - because such explanations don't work.Actually any need of any deity.
Seems to me that we have replaced gods with scientific models capable of doing the same things through the mathematical function, I could make a defensible argument that the *inherent mathematical functions of the universe* seemed *intentional* to the uneducated, but we know now these *constants* are required to fill the mathematical functional evolution spacetime fabric itself, a mathematical geometry which gives an illusion of purposeful design. But it's just the mathematical function in a dynamic spacetime geometric. God cannot do more than what the mathematics allow, a confirmed concession by a spiritual institution which for some 2000 years have believed in a Magician with a Magic Wand.But that does not address the matter of inventing new ones, nor does it address the needs of scientifically sophisticated people unwilling to restrict their acknowledgment of the universe to its simpler patterns and manifestations
If the facts prove the belief to be true, no argument.
There are no true facts in talking animals or a bunch of virgins awaiting us in heaven.
Regards
DL
Are you a spiritual thanker who beleives that some people deserve punishment.???
The reason why we stopped inventing gods, is actually very simple. Science in all its forms.
When we climbed down out of the trees, and our knowledge and reasonings were scant, we invented gods in the Sun and the Moon, rivers and Mountains etc, to help explain us, the planet we inhabited, and the universe around us.
Then along came a few great men, Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, Brahe, that began to explain the heavens around us, and some of the whys and hows.....the belief in inanimate objects as gods began to fade....Still the question/s remained...how did we get here? Where did the stars come from? etc.....As other greats such as Darwin, Pasteur, Jenner, Curie, Rutherford Bethe, and many many more continued with experiments, making relevant observations, and gaining knowledge, we were gradually able to construct a reasoanble picture as to some of those whys and hows etc.
While as yet, that picture is still not complete, it has certainly pushed back into near oblivion any need for any imaginary deity.
Why not use facts on the animals, and virgins?