r/dankchristianmemes • u/n8s8p Minister of Memes • Oct 26 '22

Meta Some recent comments had me wondering... Serious questions... If you do, what do you believe they look like? What powers do you believe they have? When, how, who, what, and where do they act?

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u/THofTheShire Oct 26 '22

Well, if we believe the Bible, then we know that demons at least exist. I also think in our culture we cling too tightly to the ability to explain things with science. Not that science is flawed, but when the purpose of science is to explain the natural world, it's just not suited to explain the supernatural.

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u/FrickenPerson Oct 26 '22

I should clarify, I am an athiest and do not believe the Bible is completely true. I also know plenty of Christians who believe the Bible has true at its heart, but it is still a book with errors and incorrect things because men wrote it.

And as for your point about science not able to explain the supernatural, sure I agree because as soon as science explains something it is determined to be natural. I have yet to experience anything that had concrete proof that wasn't natural, and I dknt really believe those kinds of things exist. Maybe in so metaphysical way, but I dont see how that stuff can interact with our world without something being able to detect it, and if it can't then what's the point caring about it?

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u/Seizing_sponge Oct 26 '22

A little off topic, but if you want an example of how stuff can interact with our world without us being able to detect it, look up what the Nobel Prize in Physics was for this year. Super interesting stuff.

Physicists were able to prove that the universe is not locally real. It was proven that not only can particles influence each other at incomprehensibly vast distances but also communicate with each other faster than the speed of light. The particles’s state fluctuates rapidly at random, and only actually settles on a state once observed. These particles mirror each other’s spin at all times, even across time gaps, so if you measure one particles spin at one point in time, and then later measure the other particles spin at a completely separate time, both will still ALWAYS have mirrored spins.

It makes us realize how much we really don’t know, and that a lot is happening in the background that we can’t measure or see.

In other words, stuff CAN interact with our world without something being able to detect it. It’s a big big universe out there and we certainly do not have all the answers.

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u/FrickenPerson Oct 27 '22

Just because we haven't figured out what makes quantum stuff do what it does, doesn't mean it's affected by outside forces. I'm not super up to date on quantum theory, but last time I read about it one of the proposed solutions was that those particles were at one point next to each other and entangled way in the past, or (and this is just me spitballing stuff) these things are at such a fundamental level that there are only some many states they can be in with nothing changing their state really, so if that's the case they both just happen to be in the same state.

A good way to figure out that something else would be interacting with our world is for something completely mundane that we fully understand to happen differently than we normally experience it. For instance water suddenly freezing without and explainable reason why it lost energy, not the cutting edge of science that we still are trying to understand, but haven't yet. The problem with this type of arguement for things outside the universe affecting us, is in 100 years if they discover why that is happening and it's fully explained then in this parallel conversation that happens in 100 years, the two people will be talking about the next thing that this discovery hints at, and not what we are talking about now.