tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161039714647158243.post8643116902324877529..comments2023-09-22T10:29:57.906-07:00Comments on MR. ROSEWATER PRESENTS...: Embracing my Inner Theist.Taylor Glen Musehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15546861494693873407noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161039714647158243.post-42738291429216210112010-02-23T21:48:38.296-08:002010-02-23T21:48:38.296-08:00P.S. "Lamb" by C. Moore is a great read....P.S. "Lamb" by C. Moore is a great read. Very, very funny.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161039714647158243.post-84761036822806101922010-02-23T21:45:46.052-08:002010-02-23T21:45:46.052-08:00Hey Taylor,
Thanks for the shout today.
The Na...Hey Taylor, <br /><br />Thanks for the shout today. <br /><br />The Naked Pastor is a great mind. I'm glad to see he struck a chord with you. <br /><br />I can't help but think if I lived in his vicinity, I'd go to his church once in a while. <br /><br />It's not faith or church that scares me; it's intellectual irresponsibility. Hell, I know atheists that scare me as much as anybody. <br /><br />A cool person, like David Hayward, outshines identification labels. <br /><br />Keep it up, <br /><br />JWAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161039714647158243.post-40398940508792625512010-02-23T13:04:49.519-08:002010-02-23T13:04:49.519-08:00I think that this is an interesting intuition you ...I think that this is an interesting intuition you have, and I wonder if you think it could be revealing.<br />I've written before that I think our desire to place our gratitude somewhere when things are going well and to place blame somewhere when things are going bad is indicative of a deep belief in God that we all have. We all are, I think, just wired to believe that the universe is fundamentally a feature of a person, and I think we naturally interpret ourselves and the world in that way. Theologians have called this natural disposition the 'Sensus Divinitatis' (the sense of the divine).<br />Maybe I can illustrate what I mean in this way:<br />Our medical science has shown us that the heart is an organ which pumps blood all over our body and that this process enables us in a variety of ways to live and move. As a matter of common sense I think most of us are inclined to think that this is the <i>purpose</i> of the heart. We think it is there to accomplish some end, or goal. But of course if Naturalism is true, this intuition we have about the purpose of the heart is false. If Naturalism is true, the process that created us doesn't have a purpose or goal and consequently, the heart won't have any purpose or goal. On this picture it turned out that we have hearts and that they pump blood because those that didn't develop them failed to reproduce and pass on their genes. To think that they have a purpose is to think teleologically, but this just isn't an option for someone who doesn't believe in God. <br />This is just one example of where we apply a common sense teleological interpretation to the world, but I think if you start paying attention to how you regularly think about things you find find that it is absolutely pervasive. I could list thousands of examples where we all (theist and atheist alike) think in this way. Now, this isn't really a proof for God's existence, but only an argument that we all naturally think of the universe as if it were created by God. But again, even though we all think in this way, it only makes sense on theism.TD Hinklehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13151422090170109745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161039714647158243.post-20708726066135381462010-02-23T10:44:16.109-08:002010-02-23T10:44:16.109-08:00this is a really great piece, i'll definitely ...this is a really great piece, i'll definitely check out that blog you linked.vmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08661355638452048959noreply@blogger.com