Cosmologic philosophy: quantum conscious universe (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, March 02, 2018, 00:24 (2459 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: As you should remember I started just that way, a 'soft' agnostic (which means not having given much thought to it), who was bored with the theology of Judaism, bored with the liturgy, and out of medical school with some reading time on my hands. So I looked into particle physics and basic cosmology while all the exciting discoveries of the late 20th century were happening. It occurred to me that the Big Bang theory sounded like the first few chapters of Genesis and someone had written a book on the subject. The rest is history. I reached a conclusion that God had to exist. My open mind reached a conclusion. Is your mind really open to the evidence? The entire issue is the massive evidence of design and no evidence for chance.

dhw: I have the utmost respect for the manner in which your agnosticism evolved into theism as a result of the design argument. I would expect the same respect from you for the manner in which my childhood theism evolved into adolescent atheism which then evolved into adult agnosticism because of the sheer unanswerability of all the most basic questions. You yourself acknowledge that ultimately the “entire issue” is NOT design versus chance, because belief in an unknown, unknowable, sourceless, eternal, infinite, conscious being requires faith.

I likewise did start with a belief in God as as child and gradually drifted into a disinterested agnosticism before gaining the information that led to faith. I accept your faith in never being able to know with certainty.