My position isn't too different from yours, but I tend to call myself agnostic, when forced to pick a label.
My take on it is that the human brain just isn't capable of comprehending the universe. The level of complexity is just too high. This isn't, of course, to say that we shouldn't keep trying to learn what we can (otherwise I'd have to quit my job!). But I tend to feel that our sense of mysticism comes from that gap between what we know and what is. I'm not immune to the drive to fill in that gap, either.
So, while I specifically dis-believe a sentient god or gods, I do believe it is quite possible that there are forces at work that we don't comprehend, or that we don't have evidence for (and perhaps never will).
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Date: 2007-02-28 07:12 pm (UTC)My take on it is that the human brain just isn't capable of comprehending the universe. The level of complexity is just too high. This isn't, of course, to say that we shouldn't keep trying to learn what we can (otherwise I'd have to quit my job!). But I tend to feel that our sense of mysticism comes from that gap between what we know and what is. I'm not immune to the drive to fill in that gap, either.
So, while I specifically dis-believe a sentient god or gods, I do believe it is quite possible that there are forces at work that we don't comprehend, or that we don't have evidence for (and perhaps never will).