My TEDx Talk: Reality Reconciles Science and Religion

[AtheistCrusader]

49. I remain an atheist by his 'metrics'.

Reality doesn't 'use' things to 'speak to us'. Or if it does, there's no evidence of it.

"Personification 1. the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.
2. the representation of a thing or abstraction in the form of a person, as in art.
3. the person or thing embodying a quality or the like; an embodiment or incarnation: He is the personification of tact.
4. an imaginary person or creature conceived or figured to represent a thing or abstraction."

Using his example of Poseidon, that's a really good way to get your happy ass killed, ignoring the actual nature of reality, and ascribing anthropomorphic personification to the ocean or many oceans, and then say, trying to sail around the world.

Personification is a shortcut, a simplification to paper over the lack of understanding, or ignorance of a complex thing or system. Nothing more. (In this context)


Basically, he sounds like he's deliberately using the wrong words for things. Seems to be giving cover to religion though. But that's ok, I doubt a lot of religious people would accept this interpretation. We've seen right here what happens when we call, for instance, the new testament 'mythology'.