(August 10, 2015 at 8:49 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: So I was reading a thread just now, and to my surprise, I found out that some self-proclaimed atheists are "open to the possibility of a higher force". I was just wondering, how many atheists here share this belief/view/openness to the idea.
And a couple of questions to those that find it likely somehow that there could be/is/it would be awesome if there was a higher force out there: What exactly do you mean by it? How is it any different from the concept of a God? What proof do you have for it? Actually, scratch that, how did you even come to think of such a thing? Was it just your own imagination and sense of wonder about the universe or was there something else[/too]?
Skeptics are most welcome too - I actually look forward to someone properly debunking this mysterious energy source that represents a higher something. But that's just me -
Define "higher". There is the certainty of all sorts of "forces" in the universe that we don't yet know, forces both in a fundamental material sense, and in the sense of general trend or tendency of events. It's the "higher" portion that is either meaningless, or bullshit.
