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From: Ernest Major <{$to$}@meden.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Paradoxes
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2025 17:29:37 +0000
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On 03/02/2025 06:45, MarkE wrote:
> On 3/02/2025 4:23 am, Mark Isaak wrote:
>> On 1/26/25 9:29 PM, MarkE wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> An atheistic worldview may preference naturalistic options, and a 
>>> theistic worldview may preference the God option. We may give more 
>>> weight and consideration to a particular explanation based, in part, 
>>> on our belief.
>>>
>>> Moreover, science itself can tell us nothing about this postulated 
>>> agent. That is the task of other epistemological domains (philosophy, 
>>> theology, personal experience, etc). Nevertheless, science can 
>>> provide an evidential pointer to God as a possible explanation.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>
>> If I believed in the god you believe in, I would be an atheist.
>>
> 
> How so?
> 
> Just to clarify, I believe that the material world and the study and 
> understanding of it reveals much about its creator, e.g. "The heavens 
> declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his 
> hands." (Psalm 19:1). This is so-called "natural theology". But science 
> has no access to the things of God available only through "special 
> revelation".
> 

To put it in a few words, a god of the gaps is no god at all.

-- 
alias Ernest Major