(May 10, 2018 at 2:15 pm)Hammy Wrote:(May 8, 2018 at 9:13 am)SteveII Wrote: Yes, lacking belief in God is rational. You have not been presented incontrovertible proof to the contrary and as such a reasonable position to hold. However, such a position is a tacit admission of all kinds of gaps in your worldview--whether you know/admit they exist or not.
There's no gap for atheists such as myself who believe in a first cause.
There are many more gaps than first cause. Naturalism has problems with or explaining free will, consciousness, fine-tuning, biological life, even the question that if evolution selects for survival, how can we rely on our cognitive faculties to discover truth about the worldview where such faculties are not an expected outcome.
Quote:You may say there's a gap because we don't know what the first cause is. But (1) Pretending to know what it is is not the correct response. (2) Is it really a gap if it's a gap that is perhaps impossible to fill? Perhaps there are some things that are unknowable? And perhaps the nature of the first cause is one of those things?
If you don't have a candidate now, you never will. You must admit an unknowable first cause. A gap in your metaphysical framework--a gap in your worldview.
