Rene Benthien

Male

Sydney

Australia

Profile Information:

Your Religious Status
Atheist
About Me:
Science undergrad at University of Sydney. Majoring in Physics and Computer Science. When I'm not doing that I fight with my friends and family about religion and politics, work the bar and watch football (the real version).
Age
13-18
Why are you here?
To find like minded people. I also have some questions about belief, disbelief and the implications of faith.
The religion you left
Hinduism
Why you left your religion.
Just didn't seem very plausible.
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  • Nelson

    if i had to then, yeah, i think it does pretty much accurately describe me. to be fair though concepts like empiricism and methodological naturalism plus the philosophy of reductive materialism sort of go hand in hand. empiricism is the epistelmological concept of relying on experience, on observation. in science it's the reliance on the scientific method and experimentation. reductive materialism is the idea that everything can be reduced to it's natural constituent parts and that everything we see around us is the interaction of those constituents, matter. methodological naturalism is the rejection of supernatural causes, i.e. naturalism, in the context of the scientific method. so you can see how each fits together. i was really just using several words to be as silly as possible, going overboard on purpose.

    but yes, overall, each word is an accurate description of my thinking generally.

    May 5, 2009

  • Nelson

    i've been well thanks for asking Rene. and yourself?

    as for your question- the most well formed arguments i'm aware of, though no less false, come from William Lane Craig.

    May 28, 2009

  • Nelson

    i'm instantly suspicious of any scientist who wins the The Templeton Prize or who even accepts money from them for research. The Templeton Foundation uses it's endowment to fund science and scientists with the sole purpose of using science to try to shore up religion, specifically Christianity. they try to sound like they're interested in supporting science but in fact they're only interested in supporting science or scientists that support their agenda.

    in fact what makes Lane Craig's arguments more impressive than other apologists is that he does indeed try to use science in his arguments. he usually misuses or misunderstands the science or he uses outdated science. but if someone doesn't have a good science background or if they don't check into Lane Craig's science they'll find his arguments very impressive.

    May 28, 2009