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Thread #171994   Message #4162009
Posted By: Steve Shaw
10-Jan-23 - 08:43 PM
Thread Name: BS: KISS keep it simple
Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
Well I must have said it on this forum a dozen times: I reject religions, and religiosity, because there's no explanation for anything in nature therein. It's an intellectual copout. It's a way of finding easy, reassuring, false answers and it stunts the pursuit of science, the search for real knowledge. It's not possible to explain the world and the universe by confecting a supernatural, all-knowing, all-powerful creator of everything, without beginning or end, who is himself utterly beyond explanation. Quite often, the purveyors of such remarkable beings like to couch things in such ways as to have the rest of us thinking that they are somehow "mystical" or more "spiritual." Those two words are almost redundant in my lexicon. The world and the nature it holds, and the universe beyond, are wonderful enough, amazing in their beauty and diversity, with lots still to explain via scientific endeavour. There's so much to engender curiosity, wonder, awe, delight and edification there, with no need whatsoever to take heed of the flights of evidence-innocent fancy that we've seen in a couple of recent threads here. The real beauty of the world, including not only nature but also the human endeavours of music, art and literature, is contained in the enquiry those things generate in us. That's enough for me, and I don't need God, magic or fairies at the bottom of the garden. By the way, unless Einstein is talking about science, he's no greater than anyone else!