A Sense of Free Will: the consciousness quagmire (Introduction)

by dhw, Friday, November 20, 2015, 21:02 (3291 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: Your insistence that humans were your God's purpose,... is already a reading of God's mind. Unless you reject my “version” of your faith as outlined above, it is your theology. Your rejection of established religions is also part of your theology.

DAVID: I think rejection of established religions is philosophy, but with the rest you are correct and I have my personal limited theology.-I would say that any discussion of religious ideas marks the area where philosophy and theology overlap. But we needn't argue over it.
 
dhw: Your philosophical discussions (including a very precise interpretation of theistic evolution) are based on your theology, which you arrived at through your philosophy! So how can you claim that you stay away from religious theology in philosophical discussion? And indeed why should you? It seems to me to be perfectly normal that your theology should permeate your philosophy. And perfectly normal that I should question both, just as you question the theological speculations that permeate my philosophy.-DAVID: I can accept that statement, and note that your philosophy has lead you to an atheologic state of thought. (Not 'anti', but 'a'.)-My state of thought probably encompasses a wider theology than yours. I like to follow hypotheses through, and IF there is a God, I like to speculate on his motives and nature as reflected in what he has created. I can't do as you do, and imagine that God's purpose was to create humans but then not speculate as to why he might have done so. Perhaps it's the dramatist's mind: we like to know what is going on below the surface - even if it's all fiction!