Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time
by dragonwriter on Monday March 29, 2021 @08:53PM
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> Scientific Materialism posits that you are merely a random bag of particles, bouncing through a random universe.
No, it doesn't. (Scientific materialism posits rules, it concludes (or models with) randomness only where the best efforts to model rules without randomness fail.
> In such a model, there is no intelligence, consciousness, rationality or even reason.
False. There's not teleological purpose, if that's what you mean by “reason”, which is a heavily overloaded term, but all the others (including reason in its causal sense) are compatible with scientific materialism.
> There's nothing about the Church that is 'anti reason'
That depends on the Church; and recently the ones which don't have a fundamental conflict with reason have been losing people to irreligion, while those which do have such a conflict have had all the growth. So, over time, the religion that exists progressively has more of a conflict with reason.
No, it doesn't. (Scientific materialism posits rules, it concludes (or models with) randomness only where the best efforts to model rules without randomness fail.
> In such a model, there is no intelligence, consciousness, rationality or even reason.
False. There's not teleological purpose, if that's what you mean by “reason”, which is a heavily overloaded term, but all the others (including reason in its causal sense) are compatible with scientific materialism.
> There's nothing about the Church that is 'anti reason'
That depends on the Church; and recently the ones which don't have a fundamental conflict with reason have been losing people to irreligion, while those which do have such a conflict have had all the growth. So, over time, the religion that exists progressively has more of a conflict with reason.