(August 15, 2012 at 4:24 pm)spockrates Wrote: Yes, but is it not also irrational to believe they don't? Since there is also no reason to believe souls don't exist? I'm thinking both beliefs are without reason, and so unreasonable. Perhaps the most reasonable position to take is to say that one does not know?
It is irrational not to doubt to the point of dismissal anything that has not been soundly demonstrated to be required to exist. This flows directly from the fact that the collection of equally plausible alternatives to that thing that exclude the said thing out number and out weigh the thing in question by an factor of infinity to one.