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Originally Posted by Hsiang-Lin  Therefore, non-science explains anything beyond our human senses and minds. |
What do we use to understand these things if not our senses and minds. What do we "understand" with?
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Religion/spirituality is the attempt to explain the non-science. This include the whole plethora of theories out there on our existence, consciousness, etc.
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I don't see why those things have to be approached as something outside of science or something we can't explain with our human mind and senses.
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Let's start with science and history dating back to the Big Bang theory as our premise. I believe then there must be a Creator or something that gave birth to everything in this universe. This origin of the universe is also the leap of faith that is required in everyone. Some will jump on subjective reality, spirituality, or other ways to explain creation.
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That argument has an inconsistency, which is that you believe some creator must have given birth to the universe, but that the creator itself "just is." No God needs to have created God. Why?
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Now by outright denying God, it seems a bit presumptuous. How can one claim to be logical by accepting what makes sense to him/her (science), but denying something that COULD fit in the model as well (God)? It is those people who accept science, but cannot accept a Creator that I am speaking specifically to.
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Well, I generally don't believe something is true which I have no reason to accept. There is no argument that convinces me that there is probably a creator of the universe. I don't deny that there *could* be one, but I don't think so. It is not about "denying" anything, instead for me it's about staying open-minded but going with the theory that makes the most sense for the moment.