(June 29, 2016 at 5:45 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: [Atheists] cannot claim the high ground of rationality while denying the power of reason and how the secrets of the world yield to it.
What a way to end! Reason is the number one tool of skeptics, humanists, agnostics, atheists, antitheists, and others. Why would we deny the power of it? We think it is great! With reason we find there is no sense, no good, in applying belief in a supernatural being simply because we cannot explain something. You nailed that in the last of that sentence, about the secrets of the world yielding to reason. Why yes, that is correct, eventually reason and science do unveil the secrets of the world. That's the problem with associating a deity with the unknown, as reason and science eventually show the unknown isn't a deity or because of one, it's physics or geology or chemistry, etc. So, as you say, since we do NOT deny the power of reason and science in their uncovering secrets, we have the rational high ground. Thanks!
Creationists are like Slinkys: It's hard not to giggle when they tumble down the stairs.
