Questions of Truth and Quantum Theory (Religion)

by Mark , Saturday, March 14, 2009, 19:34 (5528 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: Judaism, Christianity and Islam are based on books of dubious origin and authenticity, written or transcribed by humans, selected by humans, translated and interpreted by humans... - For someone who claims to "live by a humanist code" it is ironic that you dismiss such a wealth of tradition and witness because it originates from humans! I hope you never sit on a bench, for all witnesses before you could be dismissed on that basis. In fact, it is hardly possible to live as a human without learning to trust. That doesn't mean that we do not use any critical faculties. But we certainly are not so cynical as to dismiss everything that is from a human source. - I think one of the difficulties atheists and agnostics can have is an insistence on evidence for God which is direct and unmediated, in the same way that we can all go and verify the existence of Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square. Yet according to the Christian understanding of God, naked deity can never be an object to our senses. Everything that we can sense is created by God. There is nothing that you can imagine as evidence for God which a sceptic could not interpret some other way. That is why trust is central to an awareness of God, and it begins with being a little less sceptical about our forebears.