(June 19, 2011 at 8:26 pm)Ryft Wrote: True. But there is, however, the thorny problem of accounting for and explaining objective reality consistent with your atheism
My atheism is simply a lack of belief in yours and any other god man has created. The only beliefs I need to be 'consistent' with atheism are the beliefs that any theistic religion created is false.
Ryft Wrote:Of course you presuppose objective reality, along with pretty much everyone else, as do such things as reason, knowledge, and science (i.e., their intelligibility rests upon objective reality), but your atheism cannot account for it. In other words, you believe there is an objective reality but you have no valid justification for that belief consistent with your atheism.
Once again, my disbelief in man made god needs to account for nothing other than the fallibility of man made religion. And even if I needed to explain objective reality, it would be ignorant of me to just chalk it up to god.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell