RE: The Case for Atheism
May 8, 2013 at 8:01 pm
(This post was last modified: May 8, 2013 at 8:11 pm by Faith No More.)
(May 8, 2013 at 4:48 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Many arguments for theism fail. For me that raises an interesting question. Does this automatically mean that atheism is rationally justifiable? If not, then neither theism nor atheism are rationally justifiable and neither should be considered the default option.
Well, if we are to lump any deistic arguments in with the theistic ones, since they are essentially subsets of the argument for theism, it is rationally justifiable in the sense that a lack of coherent argument for theism means to default to atheism, because atheism is not the opposite of theism, but the absence of theism.
If we count the deistic arguments separately, however, that muddies the water, and a failure to justify theism does not necessarily mean one defaults to atheism, as they could still believe in a deistic god or any one of the other non-theistic gods, i.e. pantheism.
(May 8, 2013 at 7:21 pm)ebg Wrote: Atheist or religious persons would't know what scientific proof IS if it was thrown in their faces!! 75% of you all didn't even take Trig...let alone calculas...maybe got B+ in High School chemistry. Oh, yes I know there's smart people from Harvard that are atheist, but their also religious people too from Harvard. Most atheist replace biblical gods with scholastic ones. Atheist always argue for scientific proof, but most of them don't have the education or only have a psuedo knowledge from wikapedia to know what exactly is scientific proof. Just keeping attributing you reasoning to your scholastic gods because obviously the majority just don't have the brains to for reasoning or contemplation
Umm...fuck you. Your condescending bullshit is nothing more than an expression of your own delusional fantasies, and the fact that you need to result to ad hominems instead of making a rational argument shows me that you are the last person that should be insulting others' intelligence. Try making a rational point instead of writing down every fecal excretion your tiny mind produces.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell