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Originally Posted by jasonlfunk  Only someone who has not indeed enjoyed the infinite good would call it a "limit". Indeed I cannot think of a better purpose for mankind in general. Science cannot provide any answers to our purpose. "Why are we here?" is not a question that science can solve. I do not understand why you say that religion has failed to answer this question. The closest thing science can come up with as an answer is "to reproduce." If you think that is a better answer, I feel sorry for you. |
See, the thing is, I don't ask the question "what's the meaning of life?" or "why are we here?" in the first place. Those questions imply the existence of a superior being which, in my opinion, is extremely improbable. Rational thought obviously can't answer your question simply because it does not make sense, in the same way it can't answer a great ammount of others, like how many sides does a circle have?
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Originally Posted by jasonlfunk I agree with you in the sense that we always choose to do the best thing we understand possible at the time. We always choose an apparent good. So I will probably agree that with mankind, voluntary change makes an apperant improvement - though there are probably some choices that don't make any improvement but remain neutral. But in the case of God, who is already perfection and cannot change, there cannot be any improvement. Therefore, if what you are saying is true, then God necessarily cannot create. But this seems ridiculous. God can create angels, or a universe and remain metaphysically unchanged. Nothing changes in God when he creates, therefore no improvement is made. |
Ah, so are you saying that the concept of god is intrinsically contradictory, or a paradox? Because that's what I would conclude from your post...
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Originally Posted by jasonlfunk It tends to grab our attention when he does. |
Like I said before: religion creates more questions than it even set out to answer, because "
It tends to grab our attention when he does." is clearly an opinion, not an objective fact.