RE: I’m an atheist. So why can’t I shake God?
February 5, 2016 at 10:25 pm
(This post was last modified: February 5, 2016 at 10:26 pm by Simon Moon.)
(February 5, 2016 at 9:57 pm)Jenny A Wrote:(February 5, 2016 at 7:23 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: I've yet to figure out what this thread is about.
Simple. Atheist writes essay about having a lingering irrational sense of the god she no longer believes in and the evolutionary brain wiring that might cause such a feeling. Literal minded Christian posts a link to the essay and cites it as proof of god. Inanity ensues.
The interesting fact that humans are generally superstitious even when our rational selves know better gets lost in the shuffle.
Not only did it get lost in the shuffle, but Althrock completely ignored the responses he got, based on research on how the human brain functions, and creates a "god" believing brain.
My post 7
Jorgrmungandr - post 9
Jenny A - post 17
Me again - post 24 (where I link a lecture on the subject)
MH.Brewer - post 25
Thenna323 - post 34
Robvalue - post 41
Brian37 post 49
So what does he do?
He doubles down (post 45) on claiming that our brains are wired for belief in a god, despite the evidence and research to the contrary, in his post to Excited Penguin.
Still waiting for him to respond to our earlier posts that he ignored.
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.
