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About the part with god, there's a specific expression for that: God of the gaps. As our (scientific) understanding increases, a proposed god people want to bel
by Kenji 11y ago
About the part with god, there's a specific expression for that: God of the gaps. As our (scientific) understanding increases, a proposed god people want to believe in has to lose one characteristic after another because they would not hold up against reason and evidence.
- cristianpascu 11y agoTrue, my father told me that the day science came up with the tunneling effect, he stoped believing in a loving God. How can one believe in God when we have computers so powerful that we can post pictures of cats on the internet?
- shkkmo 11y agoDo you have an example of one such characteristic that has been disproved? I would posit the opposite: As the capability of our language to describe characteristics of god expands, it becomes harder to disprove god because the number of possible descriptions increases.
- amlgsmsn 11y agoLightning? Aurora borealis? Eclipses? Earth being center of universe?
- shkkmo 11y agoI wasn't aware that any of those were ever viewed as characteristics of god. If I believe John knocked the book off the table, but then I learn it was the wind, that doesn't change the characteristics of John.
- Kenji 11y agoIt does if you believed that John knocked the book off the table to punish you. You nitpicker :D
- shkkmo 11y ago> You nitpicker :D Most certainly, guilty as charged. > It does if you believed that John knocked the book off the table to punish you. I don't see how my belief about the reason John took that action makes whether John took that action (or not) a defining characteristic of John.