10.29.09
Crazy ideas
Where do people get those crazy ideas about religion and the supernatural?f
This is a perfectly good question, but we should tit for tat at once with, Where do scientists get those crazy ideas about reductionist Darwinism?
In general Kant is the best on this one: we are confronted with the frustration and inevitability of metaphysics, both at the same time.
The questions about the supernatural emerge in the most natural fashion as a set of false generalizations extending the limits of our basic conceptions.
For example, is their a beginning in time or is there no beginning in time….
Science has no answers here.