RE: Science is inherently atheistic
December 2, 2018 at 11:30 am
(This post was last modified: December 2, 2018 at 11:34 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 2, 2018 at 7:49 am)Belaqua Wrote:I suppose it would be convenient to tell you that I had reasons™ for my atheism, but that would be a lie...the truth of the matter is that I'm an atheist for only one reason..because I don't believe. I now command arguments ranging across the board in defense of the rationality of that state of belief...but I did not command them as a kindergartner..and I was already an atheist, then.(December 2, 2018 at 7:30 am)Amarok Wrote: 1. Intellectual commencements that have nothing to do with atheism
*commitments
Yes, they certainly do.
Have you heard claims made by religious people? Have you rejected these claims?
When you rejected them, did you do so based on reasons, or based on no reasons? If you had reasons to reject the claims made by religious people, then it means you did so according to certain standards. I don't know what they are in your case, but typically such standards include "revelation is not a reliable source of information," or "only repeatable empirical evidence tells us about the world." These are intellectual commitments.
They may very well be good intellectual commitments, but they are nonetheless commitments.
This stands in stark contrast to those who were once religious and then, in effect, argued themselves out of it. I did no such thing, there was no need to do so. Yet another example of a thing that is not shared by atheists as a whole.
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