Atheists are fanatics too. - Page 6 - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

d*d · 06-02-2005, 01:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by adysav

What a load of rubbish. Hey, I'll make up a story, and if you can't refute it then it must be true.

Asaris pretty much argued my corner well enough on this point

Quote:

Originally Posted by adysav

For thousands of years God has been just on the edge of human understanding, conventiently shifting to fill in the gaps in human understanding of the natural world. God caused lightning to strike our village because we didnt sacrifice a goat, God riddled a child with crippling disease because he stole an apple, God works in mysterious ways.
We don't have a complete grasp of the quantum world, but a hundred years ago the atom was, well... atomic, indivisible.

All the examples quoted are an intervention of God(s) in our lives and I would never advocate the use of gods work to explain any natural phenonema. I beleive we don't have the faculties to grasp what is beyond our perception and science is limited in it's breadth to what we are able to percieve.

RCAlyra2004 · 06-02-2005, 03:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by d*d

Asaris pretty much argued my corner well enough on this point

All the examples quoted are an intervention of God(s) in our lives and I would never advocate the use of gods work to explain any natural phenonema. I beleive we don't have the faculties to grasp what is beyond our perception and science is limited in it's breadth to what we are able to percieve.

d*d....

Well said... I have a book that fits right in with this type of thinking. It's not about God, it's about what we can actually perceive. It is intelligent but extremely readable, it's called:

How The Universe Got it's Spots - Janna Levin.
(Diary of a finite time in a finite space)

Janna's professional title is "Advanced Fellow in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University"

I highly recommend this book, as it sheds new light on the latest theories using language common people (me) can understand. I feel the point is that we can actually perceive better (but no where near perfectly) than we think when we have advanced mathematics on our side.

d*d · 06-03-2005, 01:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RCAlyra2004

d*d....

Well said... I have a book that fits right in with this type of thinking. It's not about God, it's about what we can actually perceive. It is intelligent but extremely readable, it's called:

How The Universe Got it's Spots - Janna Levin.
(Diary of a finite time in a finite space).

Thank you RCAlyra2004, I'll give it a look