What's the term to describe this?

[Unveiled Artist]

When someone says "look. proof of god is in nature... see!"

What is the name for the attribution they are putting to what they see and what they believe?

Since there is no direct connection between nature and creator (me and someone across the world should believe come to the same conclusion when looking at the same thing), it's based on the person who determines that connection not a obvious means of conclusion.

Maybe it's a fallacy, I don't know.

(From an abrahamic view)

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

When someone says "look. proof of god is in nature... see!"

What is the name for the attribution they are putting to what they see and what they believe?

Since there is no direct connection between nature and creator (me and someone across the world should believe come to the same conclusion when looking at the same thing), it's based on the person who determines that connection not a obvious means of conclusion.

Maybe it's a fallacy, I don't know.

Pareidolia:

Pareidolia - Wikipedia.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

Pareidolia:

Pareidolia - Wikipedia.

Would this be the same for abstract things that have no image. For example, just a regular tree without images of christ or angels?

 

[McBell]

When someone says "look. proof of god is in nature... see!"

What is the name for the attribution they are putting to what they see and what they believe?

Since there is no direct connection between nature and creator (me and someone across the world should believe come to the same conclusion when looking at the same thing), it's based on the person who determines that connection not a obvious means of conclusion.

Maybe it's a fallacy, I don't know.

Pantheism?

Pantheism - Wikipedia

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Would this be the same for abstract things that have no image. For example, just a regular tree without images of christ or angels?

Yeah, it's still the term for inferring patterns, meanings, etc. that aren't there.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

Yeah, it's still the term for inferring patterns, meanings, etc. that aren't there.

I was thinking it would be harder since god doesn't have any looks to determine if it's of god. Jesus would fit that term, but a creater?

 

[Rival]

Seeing G-d in nature is now a fallacy?

RF 2020.

 

[Hellbound Serpiente]

Fairly sure she means people's misapprehension of god in nature. Like, people misapprehending the patterns of craters on moon to be faces and figures.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

Pantheism?

Pantheism - Wikipedia

Could be. It's more when a christian says that proof of god is in, say, the mountains and flowers. Since god doesn't quite have an image, what do they see that brought them to that conclusion.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

Seeing G-d in nature is now a fallacy?

RF 2020.

Not in the way you described it. It's an intellectual philosophical question.

"Seeing god in nature," is pretty much my point. What is the term that there is proof of god in what you see in nature?

I wouldn't think it's Pareidolia unless one sees jesus in the stars. Is there a word?

 

[Hellbound Serpiente]

Panentheism (meaning "all-in-God", from the Greek πᾶν pân, "all", ἐν en, "in" and Θεός Theós, "God") is the belief that the divine pervades and interpenetrates every part of the universe and also extends beyond space and time.

Panentheism - Wikipedia.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

Fairly sure she means people's misapprehension of god in nature. Like, people misapprehending the patterns of craters on moon to be faces and figures.

Yes and no. Yes, because if it were god, everyone would draw that conclusion regardless who they are. No, I don't doubt people see god in nature, but I wonder what the term is called (fallacy? Confirmed bias-eh?) since it's not obviously apparent only to those who believe it.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

Panentheism (meaning "all-in-God", from the Greek πᾶν pân, "all", ἐν en, "in" and Θεός Theós, "God") is the belief that the divine pervades and interpenetrates every part of the universe and also extends beyond space and time.

Panentheism - Wikipedia.

Not from a christian point of view. But those who are pantheist or panentheist would see it just in a different light.

 

[Heyo]

Seeing G-d in nature is now a fallacy?

RF 2020.

It was a question.

And my answer is @Unveiled Artist:

Tautology.

When everything is of divine origin there is no distinction between divinely created and not divinely created. It makes no difference if there is a creator or not.

 

[Hellbound Serpiente]

Apophenia (/æpoʊˈfiːniə/) is the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things.[1] The term (German: Apophänie) was coined by psychiatrist Klaus Conrad in his 1958 publication on the beginning stages of schizophrenia.[2] He defined it as "unmotivated seeing of connections [accompanied by] a specific feeling of abnormal meaningfulness".[3][4] He described the early stages of delusional thought as self-referential, over-interpretations of actual sensory perceptions, as opposed to hallucinations.[1][5]

Apophenia has come to imply a human propensity to seek patterns in random information, such as gambling.[4]

Apophenia - Wikipedia

 

[Hellbound Serpiente]

Maybe she is referring to this. Or she might be referring to some cognitive bias. Not sure.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

Pareidolia: ...

Don't be silly.

Maybe it's a fallacy, I don't know.

It may be fallacious (i.e., false) but it is not a fallacy. There are many insightful and intelligent pantheists.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

Maybe she is referring to this. Or she might be referring to some cognitive bias. Not sure.

Maybe it's more a tree exists therefore it is logical to assume god must exist.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

Maybe it's more a tree exists therefore it is logical to assume god must exist.

And maybe not.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

And maybe not.

Are they wrong?