Posted on 02/11/2019 5:53:11 AM PST by spirited irish
As a neo-pagan evolutionary materialist (pagan animist), Dennett enthusiastically embraces Darwin's evolutionary theory because evolution – an unseen creative energy that acts upon matter – supposedly provides a 'scientific' explanation for the emergence of life from non-life bearing chemicals, thereby supposedly negating the necessity of the living, supernatural Tri-Personal God. Hence Dennett's delusional insistence that there is no soul/spirit (mind, will) associated with the human brain or any supernatural God or life after death. Thus the central concern of Dennett's career has been to explain how,
".... meaning, function and purpose can come to exist in a world that is intrinsically meaningless and functionless." (The Spiritual Brain, Beauregard & O'Leary, p. 2)
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What’s with all the Irish today?
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My belief in God is based on my personal experience. Works for me.
If the evolution theory ever explains the inanimate became animate and alive (beyond theory)I’d listen. Evolution is every bit faith based as theology. You can never prove how life started, short of science proving their theory.
Again, I stand by my faith.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. KJB
From the ancients to Joseph Smith, the void is the "one substance" that may or may not be divine and is most generally held to be energy. Among current mystical pantheist physicists the void is known as the Quantum Void--an energy field that emits evolutionary energies.. For modern Atomists (evolutionary materialists), the void is where physical matter endlessly collides supposedly resulting in a Big Bang
Though modern versions of these humanist nature religions are draped in 'science' that are continuations of myths reaching back to Babylon. .
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