Faith
Well where to begin...
I suppose it started with exploring the link between climate change denial and Christian fundamentalism. I suppose this process I've been going through was triggered by the realisation that people calling themselves Christians are telling bald-faced lies to further their own political agenda for their own short-term gain and complete disregard for the rest of humanity and even their own descendants. How can someone who claims to take the bible literally show such disregard for the 9th commandment. But it's not just deciept, people are already losing their lives in areas where the climate no longer supports agriculture!
Well I'm not sure how but thinking about the corrupt morals of supposed Christians somehow got me thinking about my own worldview, why I believe as I do, and whether I should continue in the same beliefs.
Here's what I came up with, in roughly the order I came up with it:
Theory of evolution is pretty much correct. I did have a doubt regarding evolution of different karyotypes but Chilocorus stigma was kind enough to resolve it for me. Oh, and I've actually done experiments proving most of the other aspects of evolution, albeit with fruit flies (their short lifespan helps).
Life can probably arise spontaneously within the framework of this universe. This hasn't actually been proven, but enough aspects of abiogenesis have been proven that it's not much of a stretch.
However, I haven't stopped believing in God, although I have changed some of my beliefs regarding him. I believe his behaviour is perfectly consistent. That consistence, combined with his omnipresence, mean that it is logically impossible to distinguish whatever "interventions" he may involve himself in from regular laws of physics. Therefore, one would EXPECT all his actions to be explainable through naturalism: the laws derived in naturalism are derived FROM his actions!
I do not believe that God is a person, although I'd say he at least has something like whatever you call that thing that hears when you think in words. I suppose it's called consciousness, but what I mean has nothing to do with the ability to think.
Well, I haven't just modified my beliefs about God slightly. I actually lost most of my original reasons for believing him and found a few new ones. I could try and explain the new reasons, but I really can't. It was neither through logic nor against it. I could go on about it for weeks and not explain it any better than that.
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