Benjamin Cain
1 min readAug 26, 2020

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So that's what I mean: you'd have a lot to establish if you have to disprove scientific theories to make your philosophy work. I start with science and with naturalism because they support themselves.

But I agree that science doesn't answer all meaningful questions. Nevertheless, your religious view might be in danger of subscribing to a god of the gaps. I don't think supernaturalism can "solve" anything, because it "explains" only by positing a great mystery. That's a pseudoexplanation.

Nikolai Berdyaev might be closer to an existential Gnostic. But "existentialism" is as wishy-washy a term as "Gnosticism." I'm comparing only some of the main ideas which are still relevant despite the existential movement having fallen out of fashion decades ago.

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Benjamin Cain
Benjamin Cain

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