(March 5, 2016 at 7:21 am)Little Rik Wrote:(March 5, 2016 at 4:53 am)little_monkey Wrote: But how does that make your principle of "making assertion without evidence" valid??? So you're saying, "some people are doing it (atheists in your post), therefore I can do it".Well, that's a poor excuse. Two wrongs don't make it right.
There is something that you never thought about L Monkey.
Well before to establish some reality and evidence people always guess.
They guess that something may become true by thinking of something that make sense.
Without following this principle we would not have the tech. that we got these days.
But of course there is a limit to guessing.
If the guess lead to something then why not.
But if the guessing lead nowhere then the best thing to do is to stop guessing in that particular way
that is why atheists are getting nowhere while LR is getting somewhere.
You never thought about it L. monkey, did you?
You're little short on history: "If the guess lead to something then why not." That's what billions of people have been doing for thousands of years, "guessing". And the results is hundreds of religions scattered throughout the planet, not counting the hundreds of religions who have disappeared in that time interval. It's only in the last 500 years, that certain people were able to get out of that nightmare of "guessing", and it's called the scientific method in which "guessing" must be verified rigidly with empirical evidence. And from there developed the technology we all enjoy. Take away science and you get no electricity in your home, notwithstanding all the stuff working with electricity - radio, TV, computer, the internet, to name a few. You would be reading by candle light, and forget going to the hospital as no medical equipment such as MRI, x-ray or even the notion of taking your blood test to see what virus invaded your body. In those days, if you were sick, they thought they could cure you by bleeding you.
BTW, atheism means there is lack of evidence in the existence of a god. Anything else is not atheism. An atheist can believe in voodooism, vampirism, satanism, whatever, it's not a reflection on atheism. The only thing that all atheists shared is lack of evidence in the existence of a god. If you want to attack atheists then the the only way to go is to show there is an abundance of evidence for the existence of a god. Any other attack is like shooting in the dark.