Your penultimate paragraph is extremely beautiful. I can’t always follow your more difficult arguments, but I know good writing when I see it. Thank you.
I find myself at AG-4.5:
“I don’t know, but I care, and I appreciate the great importance of the question. What’s more, I find nothing epistemically disreputable about believing beyond the evidence, seeing as how we do this regularly in other areas of life. I believe in the necessity of a Creator. But the role of the Creator beyond creation is unknowable (by me), and so my ‘faith’ doesn’t lead me to further action (e.g., membership in a religion, prayer).”
Your penultimate paragraph is extremely beautiful. I can’t always follow your more difficult arguments, but I know good writing when I see it. Thank you.
I find myself at AG-4.5:
“I don’t know, but I care, and I appreciate the great importance of the question. What’s more, I find nothing epistemically disreputable about believing beyond the evidence, seeing as how we do this regularly in other areas of life. I believe in the necessity of a Creator. But the role of the Creator beyond creation is unknowable (by me), and so my ‘faith’ doesn’t lead me to further action (e.g., membership in a religion, prayer).”
Thank you, Simon. I try to write with clarity and style. I’ve been known to succeed.
Thank you for your comment, LV. As you demonstrate, my schema is subject to further specification.
AG-4 here… Excellent clarifications and distinctions. Thanks Bill!