Jag har blivit medlen i Facebookgruppen "Intelligent Design". I dess diskussionsforum består nästan alla av antingen hängivna kristna eller ettriga ateister.
Att jag inte riktigt passar in där visas av denna kommentar jag just skrev där.
After reading the whole Bible already when I was eight years old - in 1963 - I came to the scared conclusion that the Christian god neither is probable nor desirable. In fact - he was frightening and improbable.
Yes, I believe universe is in some way designed, by something or someone - who probably isn't omnipotent but is fighting a struggle against the chaos powers that are threatening everything.
The universe is partly designed, it has remarkable parameters that allow för life at some places. This is hard to deny. Bur most of it had properties that are totally hostile to life.
I don't believe the atheist denial - but neither do I believe in a creator who is omnipotent."
Intelligent Designs Facebooksida återfinns nedan.
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Wow, låter som en typ av forum jag ärligt talat är hjärtligt trött på. Eller hjärtlöst? Hur blev reaktionerna? Pinsam tystnad från båda sidor? /Tidlösa
SvaraRaderaEn gillamarkering, inget mer.
SvaraRaderaSedan kom denna kommentar , och mitt svar. Jag har tagit bort namnet på kommentatorn,
SvaraRadera"Really? You read the whole Bible at age 8? And understood everything. Well the Bible requires a scholarly knowledge of history and the Hebrew culture. Doubt you had that education behind you at age 8. There are also many things that are symbolism. You had zero knowledge of any of that and still don't."
Mitt svar: " 'You had zero knowledge of any of that and still don't' And still don't? How do you know that? My main academic subject have been Comparative Religion, - which I studied in the university of Stockholm in many years. I have written at least four academic papers on that subject. But I don't want to dismiss an eight years old reaction in the way you do. I remember when I first read the book of Joshua. And realized that according to that book god ordered the Israelites to slaughter all men, women and children in Canaan. This was not "symbolic". . But of course, I didn´t know then that the narrative in it was false. Today we know that these atrocities never took place. Cf the works of Israel Finkelstein and others. But the fact that the authors of Joshua claimed that it happened and justified it says a lot. When I heard about the Flood in Genesis I cried as a child. Unsophisticated? Well, children could have a sensitivity , a reaction to cruelty that many adults no longer have. Of course - the flood never happened. But as in Joshua - the fact remains that the authors of Genesis claimed that it happened- and justified it."