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Scientific Materialism posits that you are merely a random bag of particles, bouncing through a random universe. In such a model, there is no intelligence, con
by jariel 6y ago
Scientific Materialism posits that you are merely a random bag of particles, bouncing through a random universe.
In such a model, there is no intelligence, consciousness, rationality or even reason.
In order to even accept the very notion of 'reason' you have to accept some kind of higher truth.
In addition you have to accept that there is 'a reasoner'.
You can't avoid taking a metaphysical posture - this is the anti-rational position that a lot of knee-jerk opposition to religion is founded upon.
There's nothing about the Church that is 'anti reason' - the Church founded all the best/most Universities in the world, and every other university is modelled after that.
The Motto of the Ivy Leagues are: 'Truth' or 'Truth and Light' or 'Light' etc. i.e. metaphysical aspirations.
Religion is the contemplation of higher order truths, mixed in with a bunch of applied social stuff.
Therefore: "Preferring Reasoning to Religion" is to misunderstand religion (i.e. Apples to Oranges), although to be fair, a lot of religious adherents do have a problem with that as well.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Scientific Materialism posits that you are merely a random bag of particles, bouncing through a random universe. No, it doesn't. (Scientific materialism posits rules, it concludes (or models with) randomness only where the best efforts to model rules without randomness fail. > In such a model, there is no intelligence, consciousness, rationality or even reason. False. There's not teleological purpose, if that's what you mean by “reason”, which is a heavily overloaded term, but all the others (including reason in its causal sense) are compatible with scientific materialism. > There's nothing about the Church that is 'anti reason' That depends on the Church; and recently the ones which don't have a fundamental conflict with reason have been losing people to irreligion, while those which do have such a conflict have had all the growth. So, over time, the religion that exists progressively has more of a conflict with reason.