4 ms·
What I admire most about the author is the honest search for Truth. It is a rare individual that can approach this problem while relinquishing their biases. I c
by padobson 15y ago
What I admire most about the author is the honest search for Truth. It is a rare individual that can approach this problem while relinquishing their biases. I can't count myself among their ranks. It seems the majority of people, believers and non-believers alike, tend to come to a decision about God after about an afternoon of thinking about it, at most.
And really, what philosophical question posed to us could be more important than the question of God? It seems that every human should spend some significant amount of time deciding where they fall on this problem before they do...well...anything else.
- kristaps 15y agoWhat does it matter if the answer cannot be known? If the question cannot be answered than "spending a significant amount of time deciding" is just waste.
- DougN7 15y agoWhat if the answer can be known? Several people in the world and throughout history claim to _know_ the answer through physical experiences. They are easy to dismiss as crazy, but what IF they've discovered HOW to search? Some things just can't be measured by physical apparatus (like love for example).
- icebraining 15y agohttps://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Biological_basis_of_love https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Biological_ba...
- DougN7 15y agoLots of "migth be" and "seems to be" in that article. I don't think we understand it or can replicate it in the laboratory.
- icebraining 15y agoAre you claiming that lack of current understanding proves a fundamental impossibility of doing so?
- DougN7 15y agoCertainly not! Lack of understanding of the complete universe is why we don't know if God exists or not. We don't _now_ know how to define and measure love in the lab, so there are likewise probably other things that also cannot be measured and detected physically (at least at the present time).
- icebraining 15y agoPersonally, not only do I not fall on this problem in any way, as I question the actual validity of it; Firstly, there can't be a single "Question of God", since there's no single coherent definition of "God." Secondly, if we define God as an entity which is ultimately undetectable and unfalsifiable, does the question of its existence really mean anything? It may be an interesting thought problem, but trying to answer it leads nowhere.
- jamesrcole 15y agoWhy do you think it's an important question? (I'm not being rhetorical)