RE: Is Lack of Belief the Best You Can Do?
March 23, 2016 at 7:27 pm
(This post was last modified: March 23, 2016 at 7:33 pm by Simon Moon.)
(March 23, 2016 at 6:30 pm)Felasco Wrote:(March 23, 2016 at 11:31 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Except that my post had nothing to do with religious believers. I was asking atheists to prove the qualifications of their own chosen authority, or tool if you prefer.
The qualifications are, it works.
EVERY advancement ever made is a result of reason.
Human lifespan has more than doubled in the last 100 years, airflight, modern medicine, computers, etc, etc, etc... All because of reason.
Atheism is not a dogmatic position. It is a provisional one.
My atheism is contingent on the current and continuing lack of demonstrable evidence, and valid and sound logic to support the claim that gods (or supernatural, for that matter) exist.
The methods I use to come the the conclusion that the belief in gods is unjustified are: evidence, reason, logic, critical thinking. If you can show me how these methods/tools fail, or I am misusing them, I am all ears.
I'm not claiming to know, with absolute certainty, that a god does not exist.
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.
