(June 22, 2012 at 1:55 am)apophenia Wrote: Belief is binary? Wow. News to me. When will you be collecting your Nobel prize?
It's basic logic. It is impossible to be a member of contradictory classes at the same time. This is the law of noncontradiction.
The classes in this case are:
The belief that a god exists.
The non-belief that a god exists.
Please let me know how someone can be in a state that is neither belief in a god or non-belief in a god. I'll wait....
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
