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Old 09-16-2007, 01:51 PM
luckyme luckyme is offline
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Default Re: Ultimate Questions vs Scientific Questions

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Some religions teach that there are ultimate questions that are not concerned with science such as "why are we here" and "what is the meaning of life," etc.

It seems to me that this is nonsense and that all questions should be investigated scientifically. If they cannot be answered scientifically it does not mean that they are ultimately unanswerable or concerned with the supernatural.

amirite?

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Not quite.
All questions should have defined terms so that we can discuss the premises, the variables and the conclusions. Until then it's meaningless babble.
So, we'd need to define "meaning" and "purpose" and then justify the premise that they do exist as defined.
Then we can discuss the role they play in our lives.

The closest we can come from the non-defined way of asking those questions is that the existence of a personal god destroys all meaning in the day to day way of using that term so theists must be talking about a different topic but not clarifying it.

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