Anything the Supernatural can explain, the unknown natural can also explain." - TJump
I am an Atheist, by which i mean there are no reasons to believe in a God.
The reason I believe this is that the only advantage theism has over naturalism that allows it to answer questions naturalistic science cannot is the omni properties of a God, e.g. all powerful, all knowing, all loving, eternal/necessary, divine aseity, pure actuality, perfect simplicity, etc. However, scientists could at any point add these properties to a scientific theory and say "General relativity, thats all powerful and is uncreated therefore the natural world is all there is."
Just as the same argument is employed to support the theist God being uncreated and all powerful, it can also be employed by naturalists to make any scientific theory equally all powerful and uncreated resulting in a form of naturalistic God (universe) with no consciousness, i.e. Naturalistic Pantheism.
The reason scientists don't add these properties to their theories is because they are arbitrary, meaning there is nothing that can justify adding them to a particular theory over any alternative we can make up. Therefore you could equally plausible add them to any theory and have equal likelihood it is a correct.
So if we allow omni properties, anything theology can answer so can naturalistic science (or any ideology). Without omni properties, anything science can’t answer neither can theology.
The reason I believe this is that the only advantage theism has over naturalism that allows it to answer questions naturalistic science cannot is the omni properties of a God, e.g. all powerful, all knowing, all loving, eternal/necessary, divine aseity, pure actuality, perfect simplicity, etc. However, scientists could at any point add these properties to a scientific theory and say "General relativity, thats all powerful and is uncreated therefore the natural world is all there is."
Just as the same argument is employed to support the theist God being uncreated and all powerful, it can also be employed by naturalists to make any scientific theory equally all powerful and uncreated resulting in a form of naturalistic God (universe) with no consciousness, i.e. Naturalistic Pantheism.
The reason scientists don't add these properties to their theories is because they are arbitrary, meaning there is nothing that can justify adding them to a particular theory over any alternative we can make up. Therefore you could equally plausible add them to any theory and have equal likelihood it is a correct.
So if we allow omni properties, anything theology can answer so can naturalistic science (or any ideology). Without omni properties, anything science can’t answer neither can theology.
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