Benjamin Cain
Feb 18, 2024

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Divine revelation can still be intuitive in that the theistic concepts appeal to our innate preferences, so that they don't challenge the basic ways we understand things. (What would be counterintuitive would be religious experience, not so much official religious doctrine). Religions may challenge our tribalism in holding out moral imperatives that are supposed to have universal validity, but the theistic concepts themselves overextend the intentional stance (i.e. the presuppositions of folk psychology we employ in making sense of fellow minds).

I'm also not talking so much about specific religions here. I'm making a very general point about science and theism.

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Benjamin Cain
Benjamin Cain

Written by Benjamin Cain

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