I received the following constructive response to some of my thoughts and have decided to share this latest effort to clarify my Earth Centrist perspective.
Hi, Peter,
Many theists believe in evolution, viewing it as god’s means of creating humans, so evolution is a bit of a red herring in this debate. We do have the concept of god in our minds, but that tells us nothing about whether there is a god or not. We have the concepts of trees and unicorns; the former exist, the latter don’t. We need further argumentation to make a case for or against god’s existence.
Regards,
Thank you for responding and engaging with my ideas.
Your note invites some clarification.
This isn’t about lip service to evolution.
This is about our relationship with the thoughts we possess.
This is about taking Descartes' (pre-scientific) reduction of what we can known about the human condition, which he boiled down to: "I Think, Therefore I Am” - to a modern scientifically informed reduction of our actual human condition: "I Am, Therefore I Think."
We are evolved biological sensing creatures, product of a half billion years of Earth’s evolution - what that tells us is that our mind is produced by our body/brain interacting with the world. (Solms, Damasio, Sapolsky, etc.)
This brings us to a realization that it isn't a question of whether Gods are real or not.
It is about appreciating that God's are the product of our own human thoughts.
Meta-physical figments within our minds - outside the realm of physical world.
You write: "We do have the concept of god in our minds" - but that is exactly what begs the question: "How does an assumption of God become a Being of God?"
