(July 15, 2011 at 4:23 am)xonage Wrote: Well, there are a couple things going on here. If atheism simply means a disbelief in a creator god, then should atheism have anything to say on other subjects?
No it shouldn't and it doesn't. As explained before, atheism is not a worldview, but can be a part of one. It asserts nothing, it only means non-belief in deities.
Quote:If you want to talk about science, then the first thing to recognize is that 1., science, and scientific discoveries are infinite, 2. Evolution is infinite, and 3. it therefore follows that we dont really know shit about shit,
Science is finite? What does that even mean? Science is a tool, not a goal.
Evolution is finite? How can change be finite?
and your conclusion does not follow at all. Just because we do not know everything does not mean we know nothing.
Quote: and in 5 million years, if we live on and keep evolving we may find a lot of things to be reality that seem impossible now. So to say something isn't possible because we haven't yet understood it it anti scientific. The only reasonable, honest answer to whether there is some form of existence after death is to simply say, "As of now we dont have enough evidence, but who knows, stranger things have happened, so I really dont know."
So what? Even if I would grant you that we don't know what happens after death, that still doesn't mean we should assume there is something after death. Not every hypothesis is equally valid if certain parameters are unknown.
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Leo van Miert
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Leo van Miert
Horsepower is how hard you hit the wall --Torque is how far you take the wall with you
