RE: Ex-"New Atheist", Now Christian
April 19, 2013 at 1:52 pm
(This post was last modified: April 19, 2013 at 1:52 pm by Whateverist.)
(April 19, 2013 at 12:46 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: .. love is a bit trickier but has physical effects on the body that can be measured by taking blood samples and studying the brain. Or you could ask someone if they have ever been in love. If they say yes then you can say. " it was like that"
Something tells me you wouldn't wait to form your belief about whether or not you were in love until after you'd gotten the results of any blood samples. We believe many things for which we have nbo evidence and act on many more beliefs of which we're usually not even aware. Very rarely do we bother to ask for evidence.
Even if we pride ourselves on acting rationally, what can we say about the rationality of acting rationally? Lovey is perfectly within his rights to form beliefs for which he has no evidence. In his defense, I would just say we all do whether or not we know it. There just isn't any point in urging them on anyone else. But I don't see him doing that yet, do you?
Personally I want to give him big time kudos for not claiming the bible as an item of evidence. Hell, I think I'll go rep him right now and pop his cherry.
