(August 26, 2013 at 6:05 am)Sword of Christ Wrote: It's better to not be determined to do anything beyond have a determination to know what is actually true. It is thoroughly possible to come to a reasonable conclusion based on the evidence and philosophical argument to conclude that atheism/naturalism while it can't be 100% discounted like any metaphysical belief is very unlikely to be true.
So... it is better to not be determined to do anything but be determined?
The atheist/naturalist view seemed far less likely when we had a more limited understanding of our universe. The farther back you go and the more limited the understanding, the less likely it seemed. The more we learn and understand about our universe, the more likely it seems. The reverse seems true for religious claims and belief systems. It may not be long before your latter statement is amended to remove the "very." And perhaps not much longer before we remove the "un" from "unlikely" as well.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
