Comments on: Are You a “Religious” Person? http://withallyourmind.net/archives/2006/are-you-a-religious-person/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:02:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Architecture Update http://withallyourmind.net/archives/2006/are-you-a-religious-person/#comment-10476 Architecture Update Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:11:55 +0000 http://withallyourmind.net/archives/2006/are-you-a-religious-person/#comment-10476 <strong>Are You a “Religious” Person?</strong> Are You a “Religious” Person?

]]> By: havoc http://withallyourmind.net/archives/2006/are-you-a-religious-person/#comment-10441 havoc Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:11:02 +0000 http://withallyourmind.net/archives/2006/are-you-a-religious-person/#comment-10441 I only differ in that I do not claim that I have some knowledge which is wholly exclusive of naturalism. I can make inferences. From naturalism, logic, math, observation and philosophy I have very strong reasons to infer that there is a God. I can look at the historicity of the New Testament and conclude that they are real and reliable, that Jesus was a real person in a real body who did and said real things which have been passed down reliably. None of this is supernatural -- even the secular historians plainly record "wonders." I can look to the best science which says the universe started some 12-15 billion years ago with a very finely tuned, finite beginning (i.e. "big bang"), and I can conclude that whatever caused that was, by definition, super natural (because whatever caused it was beyond the universe... beyond nature). I can, furthermore, test the creation stories of all religions, and I find that only the Genesis account is the least similar to the big bang theory, and I find that it would be an accurate description for an author writing 3400 years before the discovery of the expanding universe. I only differ in that I do not claim that I have some knowledge which is wholly exclusive of naturalism. I can make inferences. From naturalism, logic, math, observation and philosophy I have very strong reasons to infer that there is a God. I can look at the historicity of the New Testament and conclude that they are real and reliable, that Jesus was a real person in a real body who did and said real things which have been passed down reliably. None of this is supernatural — even the secular historians plainly record “wonders.”

I can look to the best science which says the universe started some 12-15 billion years ago with a very finely tuned, finite beginning (i.e. “big bang”), and I can conclude that whatever caused that was, by definition, super natural (because whatever caused it was beyond the universe… beyond nature).

I can, furthermore, test the creation stories of all religions, and I find that only the Genesis account is the least similar to the big bang theory, and I find that it would be an accurate description for an author writing 3400 years before the discovery of the expanding universe.

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