Why Is Anybody Convinced There Is A God?

Why Is Anybody Convinced There Is A God? Aug 21, 2017 18:26:13 GMT

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Post by gadreel on Aug 21, 2017 18:26:13 GMT

Aug 21, 2017 3:16:46 GMT ArArArchStanton said:

Aug 21, 2017 2:00:21 GMT gadreel said:

Again it's not a matter of explaining it better, I accept science and use it in all endeavours, there is nothing that I need to explain with a belief in an intelligent creator.

I don't know how much you know about Jewish philosophy but they hold God as Unknowable, that is to say all we know of God is the effect that the entity has on the universe. At some point we (you and I) will both agree that we do not know how the universe was created (not implying creation by an entity just it beginning of existence, just the only word I can think of there), and we have to make a leap of decision, was it intentional by an intelligence or was it random by some natural force. For me it makes more sense given the other metaphysical theories I follow that I treat that force as intelligent.

Honestly in terms of metaphysics it makes no day to day difference to me, and I imagine that I live my life in a very similar way to you, at the point that the question comes into play it really is just an intellectual exercise.

I'm asking, in what way does it make more sense that intelligence was involved, when everything else we see has a perfectly natural cause? In what way do you look at existence and think that it makes more sense that intelligence was involved?

I'm trying to get a grasp on your perspective.

Again I need to be clear, because I think we are going into the truth claim thing again or the evidence based model. I am not making a truth claim, nor am I suggesting that anything currently held by science is incorrect.

I hold that an intelligence fits my metaphysical model better than random chance would. So I am not making a truth claim, I am saying that the model I have in my head of how the universe interact and how it came to be works best if the source is treated as if it was intelligent, this is an important distinction, treated as if. Like I say I am not making a truth claim, just talking about my model of the universe.