Dear
@Valjean
I wasn’t going to comment on this thread, but I read your reflections and thought I’d step in a little.
Yes. Technically, there can be no real evidence of anything supernatural. If it were evidenced or understandable it wouldn't be supernatural. Faith is unsupported belief, useful, perhaps, as an opiate.
What if you had been wrong in what you thought is meant by “God” and science one day was able to explain to you what God really is (in scientific language), in a way that made other spiritual concepts make perfect sense too?
Perhaps you think that impossible, but there are those with a scientific background who say that it’s not unlikely that so should occur - possibly even in our own life-time.
After all, the practical importance of faith lays in the impact that it has on someone’s values, priorities and actions; not in the words that are used to depict them.
If a scientific explanation to what is meant by the word “God”, results in a change of perspective (among atheist) that leads them to live their lives by the same principles as those who believe in God, had people of faith been “wrong” or “right” in the end? Could it have been you who misunderstood the concept of “God” and therefore did not believe...? Just a thought really.
Who cares what anyone feels? It's what someone thinks that's important. Right and wrong are calculable; not a matter of opinion.
I’m guessing you mean scientifically...? Otherwise, what people
feel is rather important. Understanding that is called
empathy and has great impact on how one lives one’s life.
What’s more: one day, science may even show that it is
emotions that lay at the actual core of how our physical world evolves.
Also: above you use the terms “right” and “wrong” but I’m assuming that what you really mean is “true” and “false”, as “right” and “wrong” are
conclusions and conclusions are interpretations of facts, not facts per se.
Science always distinguishes between
results (1+1=2) and
conclusions (good/bad/right/wrong). If you mess them up in the chapters of a dissertation, you’ll have to redo for it to pass.
People admire skill and competence. Incompetence annoys us.
Admiration is one thing - it happens.
As for the latter, to someone who admires rationality and logic so much; is that not just a great waste of valuable energy? Perhaps “people” should consider reevaluating their priorities here...
Insecurity.
If your ego-identity depends on your being right, any contrary facts are a threat.
And what a pain it must be to be
that guy.
Humbly
Hermit