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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 786856" data-attributes="member: 6533">Now there's an interesting question:Could science in a DnD setting demonstrate the reality of the gods?I'm not certain that it could as even in DnD, with the possible exception of clerics, divine interference is still interference in the natural order.   Science as we know it cannot really account for such abberations too much of theory relies on constancy.  The more I think on it, the more it seems possible to me to be an atheist in a DnD world, though you'd have to have a fairly radical epistemology.I mean chances aren't that high that you'll actually see a divine being.  The priests get there powers from somewhere but they can't convince you it comes from that different a source than the wizards powers.  Maybe there are things that priests and wizards can talk to, but again there is no proof that such things really affect peoples' lives except in the rare circumstance that the priests  get together and put on a show for the people.  Even the testimony of the dead could be cleverly faked or just represent the point of view of a few dead who got shunted off and/or simulated someplace.  There's no real reason to believe in deities since all of the physical and magical laws of the universe function without their constant intercession, least as far as you can see.All a scam by the churches to take power and keep their secret magics away from the free-thinking wizards.This might be a little more difficult stance to take in Faerun where some of the magical laws of the universe do have personification, but in most places you could hold this position.  Scarred Lands would also be very difficult, but these are lands with exceptionally high levels of divine interference in their recent history.You'd probably end up being a jerk about it from time to time, but that's true of most deeply held beliefs.</blockquote>

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