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Metaphysics and the Mundane
Religion, Science, and the Real Flaw When Talking About “God”
The frequent, anecdotal expositions aimed at proving and disproving God are, quite frankly, boringly predictable. Shrouded by confirmation bias, such arguments, proofs, and debates are a case in substantiating a predetermined belief by finding any information that conveniently approves what one already considers true. Those who do not share in such enlightenment are, at best, wrong and in need of your wisdom and, at worst, monstrously dismissed.
The opinionated premises that follow just aren’t that interesting.
Therefore, before we can begin having proper conversations on metaphysics, we need to address the mundane flaw that is in the way.
Table of Contents:
- Common theistic arguments (including fideism)
- Common atheistic arguments (that aren’t much better)
- A proper notion of “God” in metaphysical philosophy (as opposed to pop-Christianity and pop-atheism)
- The origin of fundamentalism (and why they shouldn’t get to speak for all of Christianity)
- The scientific community’s problem with religion
- The role of Intellectual Value Systems as the real problem in metaphysical debates
- The phenomenological issue of the religion/science debate
- Confronting category errors on both sides of the debate
- A word from Doubting Thomas
- How the conversation should move forward
Mundane Arguments
Theists who embody this weary disposition frame arguments that hark on passionate analogies which, to those of non-theistic tendencies, are terrific banalities.
There is a romantic quality to the magical proofs of apparent divine intervention in a specific episode of one’s life or the clamor of certainty based on how pretty, ordered, and designed the world appears (according to the specific evidence to which they are apt to recognize and not according to those contradictions which they fail to mention). Delving deeper, many a theologian may point to the moral argument for God’s existence — that the very notion of good and…
