RE: Atheism. The UNscientific belief (part two)
September 29, 2015 at 3:00 pm
(This post was last modified: September 29, 2015 at 4:11 pm by Simon Moon.)
(September 29, 2015 at 10:04 am)Little Rik Wrote: The fact that you went through doesn't mean that you got it right.
Belief is the state of mind in which a person thinks something to be the case..................
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief
Yes, belief is the psychological state in which one accepts a premise or proposition as being true.
The problem is (which I'm sure you will not understand, but here goes anyway), when someone disbelieves a claim, they do not necessarily believe the opposite claim by default.
So, when we say we do not believe your claims, we do not, by default believe they are false. We just don't believe you have been able to support your claims enough to accept them as being true.
And on a side note, there are good reasons to believe something, and there are bad reasons.
Good reasons:
Demonstrable, repeatable, falsifiable evidence.
Valid and sound logic.
Bad reasons:
Personal experience.
Anecdotal evidence.
Ancient texts.
The strengths of ones beliefs should be proportional to the strength of the evidence. The type of evidence that you provide is low strength.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
