Question for everyone, from an Agnostic?

Question

How does it advance our understanding of the universe to suppose that it was created by a supernatural being who communicates only through the one-way process of revelation?

Answer 1

I don't think you can really advance if you rely on a superior being for revelation. We must rely on 'reality' for the time being.

Perhaps this is temporary. Only time will tell.

Answer 2

well for one a single person does natural things and super natural means its more than one could do alone and it can also mean that its so naturaly simple that its difficult to understand that communication is the only way to revelate something to another and that there are many ways of comunication but look at nothing for a while it dont even have a seed thereinand your next to it and this nothing says nothing and does nothing and sounds like nothing now looking through gods eyehow do you make this nothing into something?try this nothing is something you say to describe something that you call nothingbut you have to comunicate that point to think of something even puting a seed in the nothing is an act of comunicationnow if nothingness is desribed as darkness then obviously light is the something that comunicates with the darkness and some people when they are completly alone and praying to god they say lord i know i am nothing compared to you so lets say god was feelin this way and he first prayed that there be light dont you think the parents would shine forth to show the child that he or she is something?and someone whose just as important as the next person, that we cant do this alone, and that we do need each other,and that we are extra natural beings,of coursebecause they already know the languages that we are still babys to or havent even heard of but if you pay attention to the things around you not only people then you will begin eventualy to understand the unspoken words that you didnt pay atenttion to before so your advance will be a confidence that you do have a place and purpose in life to do the supernatural things and stop the unatural fighting and argueing and ignorences of behavior and to help in the contribution of maintaining the universe and the understandings of it

Answer 3

jim♥darwin,
"How does it advance our understanding of the universe to suppose that it was created by a supernatural being who communicates only through the one-way process of revelation?"

Your question assumes much. Or I have to assume much to interpret your question and answer it properly.

Our understanding of the universe can be approached in more than one way. So what communication God has brought to us about it is one of those ways.

Science is another direction. But there is so much confusion about what science is supposed to bring us.

I think that the theories of what science says are taken, and those less trained in it run away with the ideas of it to bring themselves into error. Now that politics are involved in science, there's a lot more running away trying to explain it, in error.

But you asked about divine revelation.
If it is true, and the universe was created by a powerful being, I'll set myself in Christianity, since that is what I know best; then it would make sense to trust the words of those that God entrusted for the communication of it.

Do lightinings speak, for instance? Do they say, " We are here?"
I don't understand their language, and it is not basic to my beliefs that they do, but is someone speaking metaphorically? Are they speaking literally? I'm not sure. But if I tend towards the trust that God has convinced me to have, I would tend to say, "Yes. The scriptures say that they do. It doesn't hurt my faith in God to think that the lightinings can say things."

What I see in your question, is the tendency to think that what's important to us is the most important thing that should be considered. I would disagree with that ideology. Rather I would say that the most important thing to consider is what is important to God. I don't need to know everything about the universe, yet I can still wonder about what science has found. It doesn't keep me from reading a science article on the internet, as if it were forbidden fruit by any stretch of the imagination. To me, the end result of science is two fold:
1) That many will treat it as a religion and put all their trust in it, and:
2) That it will at it's best, prove God right.

I hope I helped you with this question.

Answer 4

It all turns on the nature of the “revelation” itself.

One can imagine theological premises open-ended enough to accept every discovery and hypothesis of science. Posed that way, the day-to-day “friction” between the intellect and religion largely evaporates.

On the other and, once the “revelation” encroaches into the realm of real empirical knowledge, there is an inevitable clash with, for example, science. This is the result of the literal acceptance of primitive lore as the ultimate basis of reality. As a human cultural endeavor, religion don’t seem to be necessarily limited to this second and deeply flawed approach to scientific progress.

In short, the descriptive and prescriptive aspects of scriptural literalism must be jettisoned in order to accommodate science.

Answer 5

Revelations are only for the human beings and have divided the human race . Religions are the result of these revelations.Those who can meditate on few grains of dust particles know the consciousness and word of GOD embedded in these particles and in turn the universe.When these particles become alive then one looses ones own identity and merges with these particles. What ever is revealed is for every being. LOVE-BOND with the creator brings absolute bliss. The words are just an attempt to express one self.

Answer 6

I believe that type of thinking can contribute to the advance of our understanding of the universe. Here's how: The government goes in cahoots with the churches. The government's plan is to use the churches as middle men to gain money to finance research. The product is a ticket to heaven. The buyers/targets are people of religious faith. The profit is split 50/50 between government and church. The money that goes to the government is used by scientists to advance its knowledge of the universe. The money that goes to the churches is used to further the ignorance of the buyers. People of religious faith won't complain. They'll believe the tickets are valid if they buy them from the church and the government is supportive.

Answer 7

One of the cornerstones of science is verification, either through direct observation or indirectly through correlated data that has been observed. Some philosphers of science are strictly in the camp of Karl Popper and insist that all statements have to be made in such a way that they can be falsified in order to beconsidered scientific at all. Positing a "Creator" who is outside of time and space does not fit these criteria, it cannot be shown to be false, or verified in any way that remotely meets credible standards of certainty. Therefore "Scientific Creationism" is an oxymoron.

Answer 8

good question

firstly
ever wonder why of all the billions of people we are being created with a dissimilarity and the identical twins are not exactly identical .Who's work is it?can we explain that unsupernaturally?
or probably waits till revelation speaks

Answer 9

Well, the easy answer is "it doesn't."

A more complex answer is that it helps segregate those who tend to think critically from those who don't. This gives critical thinkers a more pure environment within which they can explore rational answers to questions, without pressure to cop out to an irrational notion that supposedly demands allegiance. (It can never be a truly pure environment, of course, because we're human and prone to pride, greed, etc.)

Answer 10

Why do we need to understand the universe in the first place? It's not like we are going to go out and create one.

And how is God only communicating one-way? I guess I don't understand what you mean by that,

For me, it allows me to understand the power of God. It humbles me to know that the God who created the universe, the stars, the planets, that He wants to have a relationship with me. I don't really care about the universe as much as I care about how it was created, who created it.