RE: Can you ever believe that there is no God
April 24, 2013 at 9:10 am
(This post was last modified: April 24, 2013 at 9:41 am by The Reality Salesman01.)
(April 23, 2013 at 7:42 pm)Dawud Wrote: The philosophical default is to not claim k owl edge about God.
The philsophical/metaphysical default is to reflect on one's orgin and existance and the same of one's surroundings.
The individual attempting to explain it SHOULD have a rational explanation based on evidence before it would qualify as an explanation worth considering. Simply invoking an unfalsifiable hypothesis is not an example of a reasonable claim. If the explanation has no reproducible or demonstrative results, and no possible form of verification other than the supposed individual experience of the one making the claim. Then, it would be absurd to accept their explanation. The position of the individual searching for answer should not change from default and continue believing that things are exactly as they were before the supposition of God and continue to search for a better explanation in lieu of having no reason to believe that the question was answered by a God! It's not a belief that God dosn't exist. Its a lack of any reason to entertain such a possibility simply because it cannot be disproved. I remain at the default position of an individual with a question awaiting a good answer.
(April 23, 2013 at 7:42 pm)Dawud Wrote: Psychologically the intuitive habit for humans is to assume that there is an intelligent agent behind our ordered universe.....and historically fallicious. Because people can give design to things on a small scale on earth, it is fallicious to assume that the earth itself is designed by a higher intelligence. There is no evidence for such an assertion and no data to support that such a thing is probable. We cannot create things from nothing, we cannot only give new form to existing matter. There is no evidence to suggest that this rule is not valid everywhere else. Omnipotence is a crock.
(April 23, 2013 at 7:42 pm)Dawud Wrote: I'm not saying its rationally true but atheist psychologists agree that it seems a pretty human habit to believe in an intelligent creator...agreed. [EDIT] It is certainly not a rational habit.
