(June 24, 2011 at 1:34 pm)TheologicalThinker1 Wrote: Then you're not a freethinker either, no? You have no scientific proof that a God doesn't exist, so you would be in the same boat as us. Really, the only ones who are freethinkers would be agnostics because they neither deny or accept the theory of a god or gods existing.
Not to split hairs here or anything, but most people that are agnostic are also atheists. They're agnostic because they won't say definitively there is no god, but since they have no belief in one, they are atheists.
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