(June 29, 2011 at 7:04 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: Think about it; think about all the things you have to presuppose are true before you can learn anything. Now think about how these things could possibly be accounted for in the atheistic worldview. They can't.
I've got to nitpick her Statller and repeat a sentiment I made in response to Ryft making a similar claim about things unaccounted for in the atheistic worldview. You are equating atheism with a cosmological ideology like Christianity. There may be many things I cannot explain in the cosmos, but the difference between you and I is that I don't consider the unexplainable as proof of God. Since I do not do that, the only thing I need to account for is my disbelief in what I see as man made Gods. Being an atheist does not mean that I have fully explained the cosmos naturally, nor does it require me to.
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
