RE: Arguments for God's Existence from Contingency
November 28, 2017 at 3:14 pm
(This post was last modified: November 28, 2017 at 3:16 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(November 28, 2017 at 3:11 pm)Cyberman Wrote:(November 28, 2017 at 3:07 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: If I was not a theist I would be a deist. To me, atheism makes the least logical sense out of all 3.
And I don't mean this as an insult to y'all (I'm sure y'all feel the same way about what I am).
I just mean it would take some serious, serious faith and dishonesty to myself to believe there exists NO force, not bound by the laws of nature, that could have created the first physical thing to ever have existed.
Nope, atheism is the position of not believing that there is this force, not necessarily that this force is not. Regardless, we see no justification for painting a face on it and praying for rain.
Personally I'm an atheist who believes that reality is eternal but finite. Reality is indestructible, has always existed and will never disappear but the causes don't stretch back forever. There is a first uncaused cause, that is eternal precisely because it is uncaused, but calling that "God" or a "prime-mover" is entirely misleading at worst and entirely pointless at best.