Glad to have discovered your writing. Your music analogies are very apt regarding lower & higher function cognitive faculties and their relation to isolated data points rather than fluent relational interpretation & comprehension. Frequent issue to be worked on in choral rehearsals! In the absence of skilled sight reading there is note ‘bashing’ & the gruelling ‘mirror-signal-manouver’ to fluent mastery (true literacy). Looking forward to reading your other articles.
This is simply not the role of science. It is like saying mathematics cannot tell us whether god exists, or teach us about morals, or tell us how things "should be". It is simply not the role of science. It is like asking a plumber to fix your car engine.
There simply is no evidence at all for the existence of God or any other deity. In fact, we know through archeology that the God of the bible is an invented God, he is a combination of the Israelite deity Yahweh with the Canaanite deity El. There was a time where the God of the bible was just one of El's many sons, the one that El assigned to the Israelites. (El assigned his other sons to other nations eg Chemosh to the Moabites.. Later on El and his son Yahweh were combined into one deity. This view is axiomatic in biblical study.
The challenge with this approach to God is that it tells us nothing about the nature of God. Even if one were to grant that science has limitations, that doesn’t tel is whether the God that steps in to fill the gaps is Hindu, Christian, Greek, or perhaps just a nonbeing eternal echo. Each of those Gods would seem to have different rules, and you’ve just admitted that since you can’t use Reason to choose between them then you have no basis for one or the other. Myself I’ll go with faith in the Flying Spaghetti Monster but I don’t think that’s the conclusion you wanted me to draw from your essay…
Glad to have discovered your writing. Your music analogies are very apt regarding lower & higher function cognitive faculties and their relation to isolated data points rather than fluent relational interpretation & comprehension. Frequent issue to be worked on in choral rehearsals! In the absence of skilled sight reading there is note ‘bashing’ & the gruelling ‘mirror-signal-manouver’ to fluent mastery (true literacy). Looking forward to reading your other articles.
This is simply not the role of science. It is like saying mathematics cannot tell us whether god exists, or teach us about morals, or tell us how things "should be". It is simply not the role of science. It is like asking a plumber to fix your car engine.
There simply is no evidence at all for the existence of God or any other deity. In fact, we know through archeology that the God of the bible is an invented God, he is a combination of the Israelite deity Yahweh with the Canaanite deity El. There was a time where the God of the bible was just one of El's many sons, the one that El assigned to the Israelites. (El assigned his other sons to other nations eg Chemosh to the Moabites.. Later on El and his son Yahweh were combined into one deity. This view is axiomatic in biblical study.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh
The challenge with this approach to God is that it tells us nothing about the nature of God. Even if one were to grant that science has limitations, that doesn’t tel is whether the God that steps in to fill the gaps is Hindu, Christian, Greek, or perhaps just a nonbeing eternal echo. Each of those Gods would seem to have different rules, and you’ve just admitted that since you can’t use Reason to choose between them then you have no basis for one or the other. Myself I’ll go with faith in the Flying Spaghetti Monster but I don’t think that’s the conclusion you wanted me to draw from your essay…