Originally Posted by NeoDeath90

i believe that naturalism is a more credible explanation due to the fact that i feel there is no way to prove or disprove the existence of a higher power. Because naturalism has proven facts about our brain i find its side of the spectrum to be more believable.

Originally Posted by Rave_Grip

Do you mean the gravitational field? Because we are able to measure it ...

Originally Posted by Arrianna

No I mean mass. If there is a currently unknown kind of mass that is so "light" we are unable to measure it at this time. I can believe that there are types of mass we cannot measure weight of yet still have an electrical field that can be. It could explain several types of supernatural (unexplained) phenomenon.

Originally Posted by anime_being_god

But before you say that, can all aspects of human experience find a coherent place within the naturalistic worldview? Meaning can everything that any human will go through in life be explained through the nature of this world alone?

Originally Posted by anime_being_god

Does Naturalism explain the consciouness experince and its place in nature?
Can consciouness even by explained as and entity all on its own?



Physicalism about the human mind is logically consistent with theism in my opinion. That's because, if mental phenomena are functional phenomena in the liberal sense of "functional", then they might be physically realized in the human case but nonphysically realized in the divine case.

However, physicalism about the human mind is still evidentially relevant to theism. The hypothesis of theism, as typically understood by philosophers, says there exists a special, nonhuman kind of person (God) who enjoys unlimited versions of the capacities to know, to love, and to decide to act that human persons possess. But since these capacities are mental, and since God is supposed to have no physical body or brain, the hypothesis of theism must say there exists a nonphysical and nonphysically realized mind. Which leads back to the immaterial and material brain, meaning again, i believe humans have both, and if humans have an immaterial mind as well, then naturalism just simply cant explain that. Since its not explained through the nature of this world.

Therefore my reason on theism over naturalism.

Originally Posted by Rave_Grip

Ahh, I see what you mean. It was previously thought that the electron was the lightest matter; however after Pauli's discovery of the "neutrino", which has almost no mass - thus it is almost massless. But it is released after an atom is split. But here's the thing, this particle is neutral [charge] and lack an electrical charge.
On the other hand, photon, in physics, is the elementary particle responsible for electromagnetic phenomena. But I don't see how "particles of light" would be responsible for the supernatural phenomenon.


In my opinion, yes. What happens to the world affects us, as we are born from the same elements of the earth and live on it.
Also, what happens in this world is responsible for the overall outlook of the humans on themselves, the future and ultimately life. Take the current events occuring in the world for example; we are being exposed to natural devastations, wars, murders, violence [idiot celebrities ...] and so on, on an almost daily basis. So it is possible to assume that our way of thinking and brain patterns would be affected. That's one way to look at it.
However, in my opinion it is upto the people themselves to change themselves, rather than relying on God for everything.



No one has seen God and the only possible way to see him, or Her, is to die. So all we can do is to believe that he exists as energy and energy is everywhere.
Do you know something that can travel faster than the speed of light? It is your mind.
As for the conciousness, it is what makes us ... us. We have it, animals have it and even plants have it. If it were to be absent, life would have wandered off and the humans would have collapsed under their own lack of "rightness".
There is always a "voice" inside of us that tells us whats right and whats wrong [and most of us are able to listen to it.] I would say our conciousness is just like our soul; a non-material entity that is present [as long as we are alive I guess].
Humans do have a material mind, it is just the way it percieves reality. Such as walking over broken glass, eating fires and so on explains that it is your beliefs that are ultimately responsible for your actions, way of thinking and your own "reality". The only immaterial entities are - our will, soul and inner conciousness.

Originally Posted by Arrianna

I'm afraid that is a modern myth, sorry.
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