I am also not coming from a particular religious viewpoint, and my thinking is partly based on the ideas about comparative religion of Huston Smith on comparative religion . — Jack Cummins
God hasn't made Itself readily apparent, so why would you think evidence comes to those who do not seek? Yet sometimes it does, through psychedelics or NDE's for instance — theRiddler
:up:If we cannot agree on what we are talking about then all questions regarding it are pointless. — I like sushi
That depends on "the idea of God" at issue.Is it simply best to dismiss the idea of God in relation to scientific knowledge? — Jack Cummins
I propose this "rethink of the notion of God"Or, is time to rethink the notion of God, in line with mythic or symbolic ways of understanding the philosophy of reality, including the underlying source of everything?
is consistent enough for my pragmatic (yet ecstatic) naturalism.Pandeism, for me, is only speculative and a recent position (derived from both classical atomism & spinozism and yet because it's simpler to convey than either of them) adopted for the sake of those arguments wherein I'm challenged to explain what I'm for once what I'm against (re: antitheism), and my reasoning, fails to be refuted by a religious / theistic interlocator. Epistemically, I am agnostic about this pandeity. — 180 Proof
Yeah, I think "God" is nothing but (the most popular and politically useful) one out of countless interpretations (i.e. "ciphers" ~ Jaspers) of numinous experiences, such as "art" (e.g. E. Cassirer's Language and Myth, G. Steiner's Real Presences).... to experience the numinous without the idea of God.
the philosophy of religion developed in a different era. Influential writers, like Augustine and Aquinas were writing with a different understanding of the universe, as were the Biblical writers. — Jack Cummins
people being encouraged to focus on happiness in an afterlife, has lead to many rejecting the idea of 'God'. — Jack Cummins
there are still questions about where life came from and why did consciousness evolve. — Jack Cummins
in which science was doing all the heavy lifting and art simply tagging along for the ride. — Agent Smith
Not true at all. The assumption here is that whatever it is that science is attempting to understand, art inherently doesn't understand and never will. So the statement is misguided by nature. — Noble Dust
I never said that. — Agent Smith
What, in your view, is the nexus between science, art, and god? — Agent Smith
it's way simpler than we think — Noble Dust
There is an intelligence ("god") that emanates the functions that we then observe and describe as science. We make art about it all. That's why art is the best. — Noble Dust
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