Thursday, April 19, 2012

Fusing faith and hypothesis


Thinking very broadly from the religious or poetic worldview back to the biological or scientific experience, one can decide if there is proof, or harmony there, when big patterns or systems fit well with small patterns or systems, this can then be evidence for the worldview being either correct, or in harmony, even if parts are yet to be proven empirically, or experienced poetically.

Faith is required to believe in ones hypotheses, which is where science and religion, empiricism and existentialism, analytic and continental philosophy can come together.

My religious philosophy, theological materialism, leans toward naturalism but respects, intuitions, faith and hypothesis. We can do better than the Augustinian idea that science and religion cannot directly contradict one another since science can only consider nature and God is outside of nature: Godhood is supermaterial, not nonmaterial, so science can apply to the examination of faith.

We are evolving to Godhood activated by the material-supermaterial instinct of the Spirit-Will, which is then shaped by natural evolution, this combines faith-hypothesis and religion-science.

This is both existential-poetic and empirical-scientific religious philosophy.

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