tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post550483934930964887..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: OdinRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-11785633145976354352016-02-01T02:07:09.705-05:002016-02-01T02:07:09.705-05:00For the theist, theism is a more parsimonious and ...For the theist, theism is a more parsimonious and elegant explanation of our experience, and the complexity and fine-tuning of the world. Similarly, for the naturalist, options like the multiverse or the simulation hypothesis are more parsimonious and elegant explanations of our experience, and the complexity and fine-tuning of the world. Human Total Depravity bends non-regenerate perceptions and desires so that non-Christians see the world incorrectly and sinfully. It takes the regenerating power of the Holy Spirit to open our eyes to see through created reality to God, the Tri-personal Ultimate Reality and ground of all being and ultimate explanation and infallible explainer/expositor of all reality.ANNOYED PINOYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00714774340084597206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-79431324481563150332016-02-01T01:34:55.545-05:002016-02-01T01:34:55.545-05:00typo correction:
Here's the link to the Wiki...typo correction: <br /><br />Here's the link to the Wikipedia article:<br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis</a>ANNOYED PINOYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00714774340084597206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-24703997148972006542016-02-01T01:33:08.264-05:002016-02-01T01:33:08.264-05:00Oh, and for those who don't know, non-Christia...Oh, and for those who don't know, non-Christians are seriously considering the possibility of our living in a simulation.<br /><br />See for example Nick Bostrom's (now famous) Simulation Argument which he summarizes in this YouTube video <a href="https://youtu.be/nnl6nY8YKHs" rel="nofollow">HERE: https://youtu.be/nnl6nY8YKHs</a><br /><br />Or the Wikipedia article on the Simulation Hypothesis <br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis%22" rel="nofollow">Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis</a><br /><br />Here's a Christian spin on the simulation hypothesis which argues for theism<br /><a href="https://youtu.be/v2Xsp4FRgas" rel="nofollow">HERE: https://youtu.be/v2Xsp4FRgas</a><br /><br />See also my blogpost <a href="http://misclane.blogspot.com/2014/09/scientific-evidence-against-materialism.html" rel="nofollow">Here: http://misclane.blogspot.com/2014/09/scientific-evidence-against-materialism.html</a>ANNOYED PINOYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00714774340084597206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-47106941187914063132016-02-01T01:22:26.509-05:002016-02-01T01:22:26.509-05:00It should also be noted that rather than evidence ...It should also be noted that rather than evidence for God, skywriting could be consistently interpreted by atheists as evidence that we live in a simulated universe and that the message is from our finite creator(s). Atheists could reason in such a way as to conclude that that's a more likely possibility because it doesn't involve the supernatural in the sense of "spiritual" even if it involves the "super"natural in the sense that there is or are (finite) creators outside of our universe "above" our realm or ontological level (or scale or chain of being). It doesn't involve a Creator/creature distinction where the Creator is the Supreme Being to whom we're accountable. That's more acceptable/palatable to fallen humanity who have a "built-in" aversion to the Holiness of God.<br /><br />Secondly, atheists could argue our living in a simulation is more likely since (their fallen, unregenerate, sinful) Reason, as they conceive of it (unaided and uninformed by Scripture), sees a silent or anonymous Deity of Deism more worthy of and consistent with an absolutely Transcendent God than a personal interacting and intervening God like that found in the Abrahamic religions. It's not uncommon for popular spirituality to see Christianity's conception of God as too anthropomorphic/anthropopathic. How many times have we heard non-Christians say something like "The universe is so big, complex and mysterious that if a God does exist, we're too small and insignificant for He/She/IT to take notice of us or concern Itself with us."?<br /><br />But that's precisely part of the wonder and the glory of the Christian message. As Madame Guyon wrote (often translated thus):<br /><br />Oh! then repeat the charming truth that never tires;<br /><br />No God is like the God my soul desires;<br /><br />He at whose voice heaven trembles, even he,<br /><br /><b>Great as he is, knows how to stoop to me</b>.<br /><br /><br />Or as Scripture puts it:<br /><br />3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,<br /> the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,<br />4 <b>what is man that you are mindful of him,<br /> and the son of man that you care for him?</b><br />5 <b>Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings<br /> and crowned him with glory and honor.</b>- Ps. 8:3-5 ESV<br /><br />17 <b>What is man, that you make so much of him,<br /> and that you set your heart on him</b>,<br />18 visit him every morning<br /> and test him every moment?- Job 7:17-18 ESVANNOYED PINOYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00714774340084597206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-46006189736049970902016-01-28T21:38:10.614-05:002016-01-28T21:38:10.614-05:00This was a really good read. Thanks for re-postin...This was a really good read. Thanks for re-posting here. Poor Cal seems to have bitten off more than he could chew.CRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03231394164372721485noreply@blogger.com