Study: science vs. religion attitudes (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, August 06, 2019, 18:25 (1727 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: I know you are trapped on your picket fence. Logic should tell you the designs require a planning mind. Therefore it must exist.

dhw: Logic tells me that intelligence requires a source, and it is as difficult for me to believe in random chance being the generator as it is to believe in a super-intelligence simply being there without a generator. My third option, billions of individual “panpsychist” intelligences, is equally difficult to believe in.

DAVID: Still trapped.

dhw: I would say still open-minded. It’s people with fixed beliefs who are trapped.

There are no absolute answers. See Reading God's divine nature Part II. God just IS, no generator required.