Atheism = No Spiritual Dimensions To Reality?

[Ruminator]

"So you do believe in evolution," HJL advanced.

HLJ, yes I sure do believe in evolution. It is a readily observable process within various species; or like in the example of this threads development.

I don't even think "supernatural" should be a word--it's impossible.

Flint, I couldn't agree more.

Why does God have to be outside of the physical world?

Flint, how do you mean that?
I believe God must be "outside of the physical world" in the sense that He isn't reliant upon it for His existence. The physical universe exists within the realm of time, and God transcends time.
God created time for the physical universe to exist in.

I think of the universal intelligence as the all-inclusive organization of the patterns of the physical universe.

If I believed in a "universal intelligence" that definition would work well for a start. But I don't believe it exists.

And I don't discount the existence of what is percieved as a spiritual realm. It's simply a part of nature we don't understand yet; and probably aren't designed to ever understand. But that doesn't make it not exist. I struggle with the fact that people percieve a conflict here.

That speaks to me as well.

I can, quite easily, agree with everything believed within religion, without violating everything believed within science.

Though I don't understand how you manage that?

jinx and Pie,

The spiritual world doesn't really interest me, I'm pretty happy just checking out the natural world.

There is so much beauty and mystery in the physical natural world I totally understand how you feel.
But the mysteries of time, eternity, and the spirit realm fascinate me and stir my mind.