(October 8, 2012 at 6:56 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:(October 8, 2012 at 11:28 am)Darkstar Wrote: ...no he doesn't. If he did, there would be no atheists.
This is like saying if free-will was observable, then no one would disbelieve in free-will.
Yet most of humanity believes free-will is observable through our own experience of it.
Yet there exists people whom disbelieve in free-will.
Do you conclude on this basis free-will is not observable?
Free will is an illusion. A 'story' concocted by our consciousness to qualify the body's actions. The illusion feels real to most if not all of us, but that does not make it real nor is it proof of free will.
In the same respect the illusion of god is present in some people. Again, it is only a 'story' concocted by the mind to explain lack of knowledge. An atheist does not need an explanation for this lack of knowledge, but rather strives for the answers. An atheist embraces abstract thought.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
