nebula Posted December 9, 2016 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.76 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.96 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Share Posted December 9, 2016 You have to register to be able to read the whole article, but reading about the scientific research premise is interesting. Humans are wired to believe in the supernatural. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23231030-800-you-are-a-believer/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missmuffet Posted December 9, 2016 Group: Royal Member Followers: 34 Topic Count: 1,990 Topics Per Day: 0.48 Content Count: 48,688 Content Per Day: 11.83 Reputation: 30,343 Days Won: 226 Joined: 01/11/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted December 9, 2016 2 minutes ago, nebula said: You have to register to be able to read the whole article, but reading about the scientific research premise is interesting. Humans are wired to believe in the supernatural. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23231030-800-you-are-a-believer/ Well the supernatural focuses on Satan and evil so yes unless we always wear our armor Satan can become our focus. Adam and Eve and the fall. Satan wants to give us everything we have ever wanted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezra Posted December 9, 2016 Group: Royal Member Followers: 16 Topic Count: 134 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 8,142 Content Per Day: 2.36 Reputation: 6,612 Days Won: 20 Joined: 11/02/2014 Status: Offline Share Posted December 9, 2016 41 minutes ago, nebula said: Humans are wired to believe in the supernatural. That does not automatically translate into "superstitious". Bible Christianity is supernatural but paganism is superstitious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebula Posted December 9, 2016 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.76 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.96 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Author Share Posted December 9, 2016 3 hours ago, Ezra said: That does not automatically translate into "superstitious". Bible Christianity is supernatural but paganism is superstitious. Did you read the link? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebula Posted December 9, 2016 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.76 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.96 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Author Share Posted December 9, 2016 4 hours ago, missmuffet said: Well the supernatural focuses on Satan and evil so yes unless we always wear our armor Satan can become our focus. Adam and Eve and the fall. Satan wants to give us everything we have ever wanted. OK, that's not what the article had anything to do with...it was more about spirituality vs atheism...but OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezra Posted December 9, 2016 Group: Royal Member Followers: 16 Topic Count: 134 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 8,142 Content Per Day: 2.36 Reputation: 6,612 Days Won: 20 Joined: 11/02/2014 Status: Offline Share Posted December 9, 2016 2 minutes ago, nebula said: Did you read the link? Why bother when the author has this to say: That’s because evolution has endowed us with cognitive tendencies that, while useful for survival, also make us very receptive to religious concepts. Either God has endowed us with whatever we have, or "evolution" has endowed us. Well we know that evolution is nonsense, so this writer has nothing to really offer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebula Posted December 9, 2016 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.76 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.96 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Author Share Posted December 9, 2016 6 hours ago, Ezra said: Why bother when the author has this to say: That’s because evolution has endowed us with cognitive tendencies that, while useful for survival, also make us very receptive to religious concepts. Either God has endowed us with whatever we have, or "evolution" has endowed us. Well we know that evolution is nonsense, so this writer has nothing to really offer. Ezra, if you were debating with atheists concerning belief in God, would you refuse to point to this source as a defense in your belief of the supernatural due to the biased perspective of the author? Even though it speaks to the atheists in their own language that belief in the supernatural is in our genes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezra Posted December 9, 2016 Group: Royal Member Followers: 16 Topic Count: 134 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 8,142 Content Per Day: 2.36 Reputation: 6,612 Days Won: 20 Joined: 11/02/2014 Status: Offline Share Posted December 9, 2016 6 hours ago, nebula said: Ezra, if you were debating with atheists concerning belief in God, would you refuse to point to this source as a defense in your belief of the supernatural due to the biased perspective of the author? Even though it speaks to the atheists in their own language that belief in the supernatural is in our genes? Nebula, Personally I would not "debate" with atheists but turn around and ask an atheist to demonstrate how something can create itself. Take a model airplane and put all the pieces on one table and then ask the atheist how those pieces would come together in an orderly fashion on their own. Since that is obviously impossible, it is the perfect rebuttal to the foolish atheistic notion that the universe put itself together "on its own". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebula Posted December 9, 2016 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.76 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.96 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Author Share Posted December 9, 2016 1 hour ago, Ezra said: Nebula, Personally I would not "debate" with atheists but turn around and ask an atheist to demonstrate how something can create itself. Take a model airplane and put all the pieces on one table and then ask the atheist how those pieces would come together in an orderly fashion on their own. Since that is obviously impossible, it is the perfect rebuttal to the foolish atheistic notion that the universe put itself together "on its own". Every time I've seen this argument presented, I've seen the atheists discount it for this reason and that reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebula Posted December 9, 2016 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.76 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.96 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Author Share Posted December 9, 2016 Funny, when I saw this article, I was thinking it could be a witnessing tool the way Paul used the Temple to The Unknown God. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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