The type of thinking I mean is based on what I perceive as the point where intelligent people leave behind rationality and succumb to delusional thinking. In other words, there are some brilliant, intelligent, well educated theists out there, but at SOME POINT, they set aside critical thinking, and "give in" to the "god-didit" answer.
What is that point?
Witnessing a "miracle"? What is a miracle? For some it's watching an accident victim be revived. However, most doctors & EMT's don't consider this a miracle.
Is it a tape recorder? Take one to King Arthur's court and you've performed a miracle (or witchcraft!)
Is it magic? Some people believe Chris Angel REALLY can fly, just like Jesus did.
Would it be if the earth stopped spinning? Impossible given our current level of science and physics, but what if a highly advanced alien species had such gravitational control? It's theoretically possible.
So at what point is critical thought "overloaded" leaving god as the explanation?
2007-06-01 17:55:27 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sorry, I don't follow the 'god of the gaps' argument. The universe it fascinating enough without adding an invisible man who tallies the number of hot dogs I ate on Sunday.
A miracle is something of great consequence that I give meaning to. I don't see it as supernatural. Such as life on our planet. Einstein once said that you can live your life as though nothing is a miracle, or everything is. I prefer to live existence as though everything is a miracle---of nature.
Also, no such thing as magic. Science is the "magic" that works. Earth is kept in orbit by angular momentum, and I'm not sure how technology could alter gravity. If intelligent life was elsewhere in the universe, as I suspect, then we would probably never meet it due to the distances between stars and galaxies. It's possible that we could send information at the speed of light, but travel would be an obstacle. And imagine receiving signals from a civilization that is millions of light years away: By the time we noticed the message, they might no longer exist.
The universe is mind boggling, isn't it?
2007-06-01 18:03:25 · answer #1 · answered by Dalarus 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't just "write off to God" things that can't be explained yet. I realize many do, but I don't think I do that.
I believe that the word "God" - especially in its Hindu conceptions - most accurately explains what I feel I have experienced firsthand. I do not claim that the religious language is absolute truth. I believe it is descriptive of our spiritual experiences, and as such, it is metaphorical, or it CONVEYS truth. It is not that truth necessarily. Like the Buddha says, it is like a finger pointing to the moon. If you do not take your eyes off the finger you will never see the moon. Religion is like this finger pointing to the moon. Sometimes people get caught up in the literalness of it, and totally miss what it is supposed to be pointing to.
2007-06-01 18:00:54 · answer #2 · answered by Heron By The Sea 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I've seen many things that I can't explain, that doesn't mean that they are all divine in nature, it just means I don't know everything. Religion is a way to conveniently explain away all of the things we didn't understand about 1300 years ago. Once we figured out a bunch of things, don't you think they would've updated the religious texts?
Creating a museum where dinosaurs and people exist together does not make it history. Sugar coating lies does not make them truths, just better tasting lies.
2007-06-01 18:03:29 · answer #3 · answered by carmandnee 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good question. People have a different threshold in which they will find something absolutely amazing and define it as a miracle. For me it's the day when everyone can peacefully coexist with different beliefs. That would be a miracle.
2007-06-02 19:25:50 · answer #4 · answered by smallbluepickles 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think of it this way -
If 'God'( i think of him as the energy of all creation) is the creator of everything seen and unseen, the totallity of 'what is', wouldn't it be logical to say that science (including the workings of the laws of science), and everything that could ever be experienced by anyone of us, every mundane happening to every miraculous event (Life) is ultimately part of 'God's' creation too?
Maybe everything (Life) can be written off to 'God'/'The ultimate energy source'.
Maybe 'God' IS that spark of energy within us that gives us life.
2007-06-01 20:05:37 · answer #5 · answered by feath 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many things in this world cannot be explained and they never will be till we meet our maker. If we knew everything we would have no reason to fellowship with God. Didn't your mother ever tell you "Because I said so!" Some things you didn't need to know at that time, you maybe coudn't of handled. It works the same with God. Hope that helps! It probably didnt'. It seem like I never answer questions the "right" way.
2007-06-01 18:01:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
I write everything off to God, except my taxes that's the critical thought that I have reserved for my accountants.
2007-06-01 18:01:04 · answer #7 · answered by angels_angelsarehere 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'd say it's when several men over the span of several centuries write literally hundreds of prophecies about this one guy who won't be born for hundreds of years yet, and yet they all come true. That definitely counts as an overload.
2007-06-01 18:01:21 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
God is the only explanation for everything that happens in my life. HE is the reason I am here right now. I am responsible for my sins, but Jesus forgave me, so...BUT Jesus is the ONLY reason I can even think about this right now. Jesus is THE WAY, THE TRUTH, and THE LIFE...
2007-06-01 18:01:06 · answer #9 · answered by JesusLovesMe! 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Thought is a perception in the form of electro-chemical reactions which give the thinker the feeling of existence and reality. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Just a thought............ :)
2016-04-01 10:48:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋