I’m young, and I myself am trying to find good, rational arguments in favor of God. I’m trying to reconcile rationality and religion in my mind, and if I can’t find anyone online, I’ll figure it out myself and write a blog post about it in twenty years.
You are privileging the hypothesis of (presumably one specific strain of) monotheism. That is not actually a rational approach. The kind of question a rationalist would ask is not “does God exist?” but “what should I think about cosmology” or “what should I think about ethics?” First you examine the universe around you, and then you come up with hypotheses to see how well they match that. If you don’t start from the incorrectly narrow hypothesis space of [your strain of monotheism, secular cosmology acccording to the best guesses of early 21st century science], you end up with a much lower probability for your religion being true, even if science turns out to be mistaken about the particulars of the cosmology.
Put another way: What probability do you assign to Norse mythology being correct? And how well would you respond if someone told you you were being closed-minded because you’d never heard a solid argument for Thor?
I’m sorry if you feel that I’ve called you closed-minded, no personal offense was intended. But it’s a bit worrisome when a community as a whole has only ever heard one viewpoint.
You are privileging the hypothesis of (presumably one specific strain of) monotheism. That is not actually a rational approach. The kind of question a rationalist would ask is not “does God exist?” but “what should I think about cosmology” or “what should I think about ethics?” First you examine the universe around you, and then you come up with hypotheses to see how well they match that. If you don’t start from the incorrectly narrow hypothesis space of [your strain of monotheism, secular cosmology acccording to the best guesses of early 21st century science], you end up with a much lower probability for your religion being true, even if science turns out to be mistaken about the particulars of the cosmology.
Put another way: What probability do you assign to Norse mythology being correct? And how well would you respond if someone told you you were being closed-minded because you’d never heard a solid argument for Thor?
I’m sorry if you feel that I’ve called you closed-minded, no personal offense was intended. But it’s a bit worrisome when a community as a whole has only ever heard one viewpoint.