New post on how I stopped being a fundie homeschooler evangelist
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One bone to pick: for Deists/Pandeists, belief systems very well may be “the things we’ve logically concluded about the world.”
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?? All belief systems serve functions - even deism/pandeism. There is no such thing as pure logical conclusion about something like that.
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....but surely one can lay out all theological possibilities, and make logically valid determinations about their relative probability, with
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probability is deeply subjective, as it is a calculation dependent on perspective, 'logically valid probability prediction is nonsensical
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Subjective? Possibly. But when the weatherman asserts a probability of rain, I trust that his factors are logically weighed....
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I think oversimplifying belief choices down to 'logical conclusions' is incredibly dangerous
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May I ask, how would you describe yourself now in terms of religion and/or spirituality?
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Loosely into zen, or basically whatever the things zen says sounds real good to me
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Some fundamental principles of logic can be applied to the inquiry. For example, an explanation requiring fewer assumptions is more likely.
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I grant that the probability of our Universe having a Creator is much harder to gauge logically and objectively than a probability of rain.