RE: Questions for Athiests/Agnostics
June 7, 2011 at 12:00 am
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2011 at 12:01 am by Minimalist.)
If I'm following the question correctly the answer is "no."
I assume that had Thomas Jefferson lived today he would be as much of an atheist as Hitchens or Dawkins but no one can blame him for clinging to the inane idea of creation because in the late 18th/early 19th century no one understood much if anything about astrophysics, evolution or genetics.
However, people who cling to fairy tales today when science has shown them to be thus are a different story. Remember religion asks no questions because it arrogantly thinks it already has all the answers.
The answer to part II is most likely not. If a mind like Jefferson's couldn't wean himself off of fantasy I have no illusions that I would have been able to either.
I assume that had Thomas Jefferson lived today he would be as much of an atheist as Hitchens or Dawkins but no one can blame him for clinging to the inane idea of creation because in the late 18th/early 19th century no one understood much if anything about astrophysics, evolution or genetics.
However, people who cling to fairy tales today when science has shown them to be thus are a different story. Remember religion asks no questions because it arrogantly thinks it already has all the answers.
The answer to part II is most likely not. If a mind like Jefferson's couldn't wean himself off of fantasy I have no illusions that I would have been able to either.
