Atheist philosopher Philip Goff becomes a Christian

by slimboyfat 12 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Touchofgrey

  After a personal examination of the bible and the events recorded eg Adam in eve story, world wide flood, exodus from Egypt and the jesus story that there is no evidence that these things actually happened, so the bible is a man made book often using stories from other cultures, 100% sure of that.

  That then left the question is there a god I was still unsure so started to investigate that question, looking to science for information, initially regarding the solar system and the fact that a inflation event took place confirmed by scientists,what happened before that we don't know yet ,but a god isn't necessary , the fact that this planet that we live on wasn't designed for life let alone humans as there has been 5 extinction events in the earth's history last one 65 million years ago(check it out at dynamic earth in Edinburgh) and this planet earthquake, floods etc ,and our solar system keeps trying to wipe out life ,because of such evidence I'm convinced that life evolved.
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  slimboyfat

  Yes, on the one hand the history of life is a sequence of extinctions and nature is against survival. But on another deeper level, why does reality exist in such a way that life and consciousness are even possible at all. Why should it? It’s bit like pointing out bad weather makes survival more difficult but ignoring the question why there’s a planet on which weather is even possible in the first place. It seems to me that the existence of reality does reasonably call for an explanation, and invoking a being that is outside of existence as we understand it approximates what might look like some explanation. This is why I think God is likely but I don’t know for sure.

  I’m more sure about other mundane things that others have different opinions on. For example I’m 90% sure the covid virus came from a lab in Wuhan and I have been sure of that from the start. I’m 90% sure Russia didn’t blow up its own gas pipeline but it was probably the US with or without help from others. I’m 90% sure that senior officials have been knowingly covering for Biden’s dementia for years. These things seem obvious to me to the point that many people have failed a basic kind of societal level intelligence test in not seeing the obvious.

  https://youtu.be/9HKNAhAxMAk?si=6KeUyoihPFjJZpYp
  
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  Touchofgrey

  https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a62373322/quantum-theory-of-consciousness/

  I found this article regarding consciousness ,you have probably read it already, maybe others on here have a better understanding of consciousness and it's part it's human evolution.