RE: Argument against atheism
December 22, 2011 at 4:43 am
(This post was last modified: December 22, 2011 at 5:05 am by Darwinning.)
(December 21, 2011 at 10:15 pm)houseofcantor Wrote: Exodus 3:14. Then the universe. Assholes can't even read their own script.
I don't like the script. I improvise; otherwise known as "making stupid shit up as I go along".
From my own observation, I have good reason to believe that this is what everybody else is doing.
(December 22, 2011 at 2:46 am)whateverist Wrote: I too have noticed that some atheists treat the existence of god as something science can help us decide. I agree that if god has any meaning at all it has to be subjective and ontological. It isn't 'out there'
where science can get at it.
God is the assumption about reality that atheists are not willing to make.
I personally believe that assuming God adds nothing. It does not help me explain the world I perceive in any way. Scientific models based on realism seem to be able to predict the world just fine without Him; and predictions do not become more accurate when we do asume He exists.
So I think you are right that science cannot disprove God. Philosophical assumptions about the nature of reality cannot be rejected based on proof. But we can apply Occam's razor and infer probability. I believe reality is a set of simple rules applied to matter. God seems way too complicated.
