Physicalism and Faith
“So I had started to wonder. Perhaps God was just an idea people made up? Maybe that’s enough for there to be some kind of meaning? But I was stuck. I still loved the scriptures with their teachings and narratives, but I didn’t know how to square them with the physicalist assumptions I had silently taken on board.”
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Thank you John for a very interesting talk. There is certainly much discussion in New Scientist magazine on this subject and no sign of any agreement at all. It seems to me that the more fundamental question for physicalism is: why is there something rather than nothing? This was actually discussed some years ago, but of course no-one had even a vaguely satisfactory answer. Perhaps people have a very limited idea of what God actually is; something which demands humility on our part.
