(July 30, 2015 at 12:51 am)Alex K Wrote: That itself is not skepticism, Jenny, that should ideally be the current conclusion reached using your skepticism, not an automatic consequence... Atheism and skepticism are quite different categories.
I am first a skeptic and second, by consequence, an atheist. I'm also aESP, a-alien abduction, a-amost-all-dietary-revealed-wisdom, aghosts, a-Bermuda-Triangle-woo, aNessy, aBigFoot, and so on. It all stems from being a skeptic. I'm not so sure about some geology, and some physics too, not to mention evolutionary tales that sound like just-so stories.
What drives me a little bananas is the idea that skepticism means not believing in anything because insert-wild conspiracy-theory-here. It means examining the evidence before believing,.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
