RE: Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Disproving God
March 13, 2017 at 6:54 pm
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2017 at 6:54 pm by masterofpuppets.)
(March 13, 2017 at 5:03 pm)SteveII Wrote:(March 13, 2017 at 2:53 pm)ma5t3r0fpupp3t5 Wrote: This is why out of all gods, the Biblical God is probably one of the least likely of gods to be true.
Belief in such a god entails that reason, evidence and logic all get tossed out the window. Theist's justification? Because He is "special". Why is he special? Because he's God. It's all a bunch of circular logic and special pleading.
When a belief is relentlessly instilled into someone from the moment they are born, he/she perceives, what are demonstrably the best tools (reason, evidence, logic) in acquiring knowledge about our universe, as being enemies of God. Out of fear and social pressure, theists simply lean on the side of God. A god whose basic existence hasn't been demonstrated.
Belief in the Biblical God is not knowledge. It limits knowledge.
It seems you have built up a straw man (your caricature of a god no one believes in) and coupled it with another straw man (your caricature of Christian who think as you proposes) -- so your arguments/reasons seem successful. I don't think you could fit any more nonsense into a post that length.
It's not a strawman when so many theists (not only Christians, I used their god only as an example) don't believe in evolution and indeed base a large amount of their worldview on scripture.
I'm addressing theists on the more fundamentalist side, not necessarily all theists, but that is still a large portion of theists overall. You are misrepresenting the point of my post.
"Faith is the excuse people give when they have no evidence."
- Matt Dillahunty.
- Matt Dillahunty.
