| mrstickball said: I would say that you're correct that we don't know what all is out there - with other dimensions, quantumn physics, and the like. That may play a part of it. But alternatively, what if God works supernaturally through such things, and that those realms are merely the conduit of how he works? Yes, I believe some if not many "Miracles" can be explained by the scientific method - even if its through things we can't verifiy empirically yet. But the key is "many", not all. That is what makes empiricism useless in the argument of supernatural pheonmena. Even if 99% can be explained, you still have that 1% that is impossible to explain via science, which causes the scientific method to be flawed when people like Gervais require it to be able to explain and define God. I mean, if someone walked up to you - someone you trusted - and said that he heard "God" speak to him, (this God being someone he trusted and believed existed), and God told this person audiably to find a phone directory call a specific business 10,000 miles away, only for the man to do that and find his long-lost daughter visiting that business for the first time in her life. Do you know what the probability of such an event happening is? The likelihood of such an event occurring is impossible - but with God, I've seen such people talk about these kinds of miracles very often. |
This is what I meant when I said there's a gap in between that highly improbable event and believing it was an effect from god.
Multi-verses, aliens, some biological/familial/sub-conscious form of communication we're not aware of are all as equally valid as saying it was due to god. To jump straight from one event to god is a "leap of faith". All I'm pointing out is that there are many possibilities and interpretations then just a higher creator being.
