(March 28, 2013 at 7:07 pm)lewlking Wrote: Both atheists and agnostics view that conclusions should be based on logic, proofs, and evidence.
I don't see why this should be true. You know that your conscious mind is only one component of your total mind. Our human brain sits upon a perfectly good mammalian brain which is perfectly capable of wordlessly recognizing potentials in our surroundings, and initiating action before we consciously realize the reason. To restrict belief to logic, proofs and evidence isn't necessary and isn't always advantageous.
I know what is beautiful and what isn't without logic, proof or evidence. To think that what is beautiful can be completely captured in words is a mistake. Likewise with what is good. The conscious mind did not create this category either and it can no more decide what is good than it can decide what is beautiful. These things we recognize as much through the feelings elicited as by any exercise in categorization.
