"Suppose there was no intelligence behind the universe. In that case nobody designed my brain for the purpose of thinking. Thought is merely the by-product of some atoms within my skull. But if so, how can I trust my own thinking to be true? But if I can't trust my own thinking, of course I can't trust the arguments leading to atheism, and, therefore, I have no reason to be an athiest, or anything else. Unless I believe in God, I can't believe in thought, so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God."
--C.S. Lewis
This is a phenomenal quote. Still I am sure DB or Percivale could find a flaw in it, but I'll still go on, lol. I have seen the quote used multiple times as a way to show that the Christian God exists. The problem with that view is that he clearly is talking about God, not the Biblical Yahwah.
As most of you know I am an Agnostic Deist but I have inklings with the Norse religions and paganism. If you've seen the Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip video, Letter from God to Man, that has circulated once or twice, you'll see I agree with that as well. This isn't the point though.
The point is that we as humans years removed from previous writers, like to take ideas and change them to fit our own agendas. Take the quote above as I've said before, it is a good argument for a God, but it has no scientific backing. Why can't science and God coincide? Perc and DB will say because there is more proof that a God doesn't exist, than there is proof that one exists. I would argue that there is proof that a God or intelligence exists, I would even say that we are living in an intelligent universe. I however see no proof from science that proves that a certain God exists.
Sure we can fall back on the teaching of religions and their morals. The only problem is that those morals are all based off what is known as Natural Laws that we witness using logic, something that religions usually never take into effect. Do I feel that deism is a scientific religion? Certainly not, science cannot prove a human construct, but no one has really tried to prove or disprove God. My point is that logic and reason all point to something bigger than us, more than likely some intelligence of some sort, probably an intelligent universe. Religions unfortunately disregard logic and reason and that is where they all fail miserably.
I am not saying God exists, I am only saying that reason and logic point to somthing bigger be it just intelligence or a entitiy of some sort. Still it is better to leave an open mind to all things than to close it off to even one because when you shut down even part of your thinking, you suffer greatly.
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