This logic tree really hits the nail on the head ... don't you think?
Thanks to Dutch philosopher Floris van den Berg for bringing this to my attention.
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We have science to help us explain the natural world. I find it ironic that someone can so easily assume that supernatural is easier to explain than natural. Yet this seems to be the case with people who are religious. They almost seemed entrenched in this belief that knowing is evil and not knowing is a virtue.
ReplyDeleteGood Job. I love flow charts
ReplyDeleteThere is, to my mind, a flaw in this flow chart. Just because a person can't prove something doesn't immediately make it bullshit. There was a time when nobody would have believed the existence of bacteria to be possible, when nobody knew about electrons or atoms, when the possibility of going to space seemed like a flight of fancy.
ReplyDeleteIt's one thing to be skeptical, it is another thing to close one's mind by insisting on taking a stance of non-belief in anything that can't be proven via current scientific methods of measurement. That is to say, it's erroneous to close one's mind to the possibility that certain things which we might currently term "supernatural" may in fact exist.
I don't like to approach life either from a state of blind belief or blind non-belief. I prefer to remain open to possibilities.