(April 24, 2012 at 6:51 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:(April 24, 2012 at 6:43 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: I think most atheists would prefer knowledge, it's just that the theist case hasn't presented something convincing enough to constitute knowledge. Something needs to be true to be knowledge.
To make that statement you have to adopt a head in the sand approach to vast swathes of knowledge.
You need to cherry pick your sources to make that work.
The knowledge you refer to is the cornerstone of our society. No one is questioning that knowledge, only some insist that this knowledge should be all that is useful and usable, when clearly it isn't.
I'm not following.
What else might be useful?
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
