RE: I can feel your anger
July 6, 2012 at 1:22 am
(This post was last modified: July 6, 2012 at 1:22 am by Voltair.)
Didn't bother to sift through all 18 pages....
Basically - No atheist can prove 100% that there is no god and no theist can prove that there is one. However without being given evidence I have no reason to place stock in the idea that there is one either.
Whether or not there is a God of any kind is something we can't verify or disprove so we are left at a standstill. I know my religious views says Agnostic but I am still an atheist regarding the Christian, Muslim, and other religions gods. There is no verification and the deist version of God, if he exists, doesn't seem to care whatsoever about identifying himself.
Atheists are not irrational to hold their position anymore than you would be irrational for not believing that unicorns exist. Do these creatures exist? Perhaps but there is no evidence therefore it is rational to conclude they most likely do not exist.
As far as some atheists replacing religion with science there are always extremes. However do not mistake people's passion for religion. People are passionate about science because of what it has provided, continues to provide, and what it can potentially provide in the future. Among these things are answers to interesting questions, cures for diseases, new ways of doing things, and solving various other irritations in life. To be fair faith/prayer, aside from placebo affects + psychological effects, doesn't have any similar benefit.
How is it bad for people to trust in an idea that works?
However I suspect most would throw science off a cliff if it stopped working. If you drop an apple off a cliff and it repeatedly falls you are testing/proving gravity. That is not faith that is called observation and experimentation. If the apple randomly floated up and sometimes fell without any consistency you could say "Well FUCK GRAVITY".
Basically - No atheist can prove 100% that there is no god and no theist can prove that there is one. However without being given evidence I have no reason to place stock in the idea that there is one either.
Whether or not there is a God of any kind is something we can't verify or disprove so we are left at a standstill. I know my religious views says Agnostic but I am still an atheist regarding the Christian, Muslim, and other religions gods. There is no verification and the deist version of God, if he exists, doesn't seem to care whatsoever about identifying himself.
Atheists are not irrational to hold their position anymore than you would be irrational for not believing that unicorns exist. Do these creatures exist? Perhaps but there is no evidence therefore it is rational to conclude they most likely do not exist.
As far as some atheists replacing religion with science there are always extremes. However do not mistake people's passion for religion. People are passionate about science because of what it has provided, continues to provide, and what it can potentially provide in the future. Among these things are answers to interesting questions, cures for diseases, new ways of doing things, and solving various other irritations in life. To be fair faith/prayer, aside from placebo affects + psychological effects, doesn't have any similar benefit.
How is it bad for people to trust in an idea that works?
However I suspect most would throw science off a cliff if it stopped working. If you drop an apple off a cliff and it repeatedly falls you are testing/proving gravity. That is not faith that is called observation and experimentation. If the apple randomly floated up and sometimes fell without any consistency you could say "Well FUCK GRAVITY".
