RE: Atheism is a religion
January 8, 2012 at 4:29 pm
(This post was last modified: January 8, 2012 at 4:37 pm by Ace Otana.)
Quote:Let's see. Can you see the planet neptune right now?Yes. Actually you can spot it at night, also with the aid of telescopes and the space telescope along with space probes, we can indeed see it. Also we can hear it - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToXaNUjNfS4
Quote:Those are your senses.No, the senses of technology which in turn enables us to see more.
Quote:Now you are able to believe it exists because you perceive it.No, there is evidence that it exists. Belief not required.
Quote:However, someone who was aware of it, someone who had perceived it, could tell you about it. You would then be aware of Neptune as an idea. Because you would be aware of it, you would have beliefs about it. You would either believe it was real and that the person was telling the truth, or believe that it was a load of crap and the person was feeding you a line of bull. You could also be unsure. You would probably be a mixture of all three of those beliefs in different purportions. You could no longer not believe about Neptune though, because you were made aware of it by whoever had told you about it.Thing is, we can verify it for ourselves. There is evidence for it.
Quote:Either way though even with perception, we can only ever get 99% of the way there. We can't absolutely know things as you have stated. That extra 1% requires us to be confident that our perceptions are real. It takes "faith," or "belief"Faith/belief not required. We have evidence.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.