Atheism Undermines Knowledge

[downbeatplumb]

My problem is not with atheism itself, but physical reduction. I think bridging the gap between mind and body is a serious philosophical issue. The mind-body problem still leaves something to explain. That is what I meant about undermining knowledge. You guys have stopped inquiry well before the reach of reason. You stance is not "I don't know" but rather "I do not care to know." A small part of the dilemma in the induction problem. You have given up and pretend that nothing more needs to be explained.

There is no evidence for the position you have taken and a line of reasoning that has nothing going for it can be abandoned.
Otherwise you'd have us still sacrificing to water spirits, its time to let go of your outmoded belief system.

I had hoped someone would be able to contribute to my understanding by at least taking the problem seriously. A provocative thread title helps attract attention, but apparently that is the wrong strategy. It attracts the attention of the wrong type of critic. Being open minded, I find it conceivable, though unlikely, that a non-theistic solution could be found.

I find you to be quite closed minded.

If so I will return to my previous atheism. You cannot truly call yourselves freethinkers if you have stopped thinking.

You equate a need for evidence with being closed minded but it is not. If you start to believe things without evidence then you can bring your self to believe in any crap.

My wife is a spiritualist, I know of what I speak.