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  • "I don't know ... and you don't either."

    The above is my usual illustrative phrase of "hard agnosticism." More formally, "If a deity exists, knowledge of said deity is impossible." (I will note that I rather doubt the existence of deity, but I am also persuaded that definitive knowledge that no such entity exists is beyond our capacity.)

    What other naturalistic views do we have here on TWeb?

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    My conclusion thus far is that evidence for a deity is at best ambiguous. If there is one, I consider it functionally irrelevant. I don't agree that knowledge* of it is impossible, but I suspect it's not something that could ever be shared.






    *Granting for the moment that knowledge is actually attainable, which I generally don't believe.
    I'm not here anymore.

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      The Religious a priori: apologetics for 21st ccentury

      The Trace of God by Joseph Hinman

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        I'm not really sure if I'm allowed in here, but I think that while there's probably some sort of creator, said creator does not seem to interact much if at all with the Universe, so whoever created the Universe is not really worth worrying about much.
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        Find my speling strange? I'm trying this out: Simplified Speling. Feel free to join me.

        "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do."-Jeremy Bentham

        "We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question."-Orson Scott Card

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