RE: Atheists becoming less unpopular?
March 31, 2017 at 7:38 pm
(This post was last modified: March 31, 2017 at 7:40 pm by Jehanne.)
(March 31, 2017 at 11:00 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Maybe because most people do not accept the definition of atheism as lack of belief, in which case they considered atheists opposed to the fundamental principle for justifying inherent human rights as expressed in the Declaration of Independence. If there is no God, there are no inalienable human rights.
As everyone knows, the "god" that the Founders were speaking of was a deistic God; at least that's how Jefferson conceived of things.
(March 31, 2017 at 12:00 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(March 31, 2017 at 11:15 am)Khemikal Wrote: It's not as if there is no secular foundation for such a position.
Try the UN preamble, for starters.
Recognition of inalienable human rights is not the same and having a foundation for them. It's kind of like your objections to intelligent design. Both ID and neo-Dawinists recognize the same complex systems but differ significantly on how those complex systems came to be. Wouldn't you say that ID proponents haven't adequately demonstrated that presence of a designer and that biological systems only appear to be designed? In other words, knowing "that something is" is not the same as knowing "why something is." So no, Khem, there is no secular foundation for human rights.
Regardless, ID is not science, which is why it should not be taught in science classes. For starters, it is not falsifiable.
