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Theism and Western atheism are on the same continuum. Both are realist.
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RE: Theism and Western atheism are on the same continuum. Both are realist.
(November 28, 2012 at 5:04 pm)alwayson Wrote:
(November 28, 2012 at 5:01 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Not at all, not in the least, and not in your wildest dreams.

Of course you do.

Not until you, or whoever is making the proposition, demonstrates that "God etc" are things that exist in the first place. Otherwise the only option is to accept the existence of, literally, everything and anything that the human imagination can conjure up; from Ceiling Cat to the Invisible Martian Cheese Bicycles. That way madness waits in eager and hungry anticipation.

(November 28, 2012 at 5:10 pm)alwayson Wrote: Dawkins is always drawn into a losing argument about the beginning of the universe. Dawkins just says scientists are working on it, which makes western atheists look weak.

Because Professor Dawkins is a biologist, not a cosmologist or an astrophysicist. Besides, scientists are working on it.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Theism and Western atheism are on the same continuum. Both are realist. - by Cyberman - November 28, 2012 at 5:12 pm

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