FootnoteOfPlato
FootnoteOfPlato t1_jdkoev3 wrote
Reply to comment by Miserable_Sun6756 in /r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | March 13, 2023 by BernardJOrtcutt
Pot meet kettle; your existing belief structure makes you think that.
Evolution is a hypothesis, btw, given that it can't be tested in a laboratory to confirm it. The evidence is the same for everyone; interpretation is subjective, conforming to prior beliefs that we have. You have zero evidence that God doesn't exist, so my interpretation should be just as plausible as yours in your mind.
Right after graduating college a few years ago, I had a dream about a blonde woman in her 20s. I memorized her face that day, as I had never seen her before. Months later, hundreds of miles away, I walked into one of my graduate courses and there she was... The bible talks about God's foreknowledge, which makes sense if everything is determined. I believe it is all determined based upon this: if you were given two choices and it was 50/50 whether you choose one or the other, then you wouldn't choose either because nothing *convinces* you to choose one option over the other, whether it be a pro, a con, or an innate proclivity. Thus, we are determined in every decision by the aforementioned variables.
FootnoteOfPlato t1_jdixuuk wrote
Reply to comment by Miserable_Sun6756 in /r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | March 13, 2023 by BernardJOrtcutt
If you do something good, you feel good afterward. If you do something bad, you feel either guilt, shame, or both; sounds like engineering by a feeling, moral deity to me.
FootnoteOfPlato t1_jdmxixo wrote
Reply to comment by Miserable_Sun6756 in /r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | March 13, 2023 by BernardJOrtcutt
Wrong, given that a scientific theory must be both experimental and falsifiable, and the hypothesis of evolution is neither. Evolutionists infer common ancestry, leading back to the first cell, which was composed randomly through time and chance. There is no way to test this hypothesis throgh experimentation, making it unfalsifiable. Evolutionists assume it's true based upon their preconception about God, namely that he does not exist, which is another hypothesis they presume to be true, yet have no evidence for.
Know that God loves you, but it's on his terms.