(September 3, 2013 at 9:09 am)Esquilax Wrote: Well, the mean-spirited part of me thinks that apologists are just desperately trying to legitimize a belief that has no legitimacy with their arguments, but in truth it's probably more to do with all this personal experience stuff that every theist backpedals to when they've got no more arguments to give;
I think it has more to do with rationalizing a conclusion drawn from personal experience. In their heart they feel god exists, and all of these other arguments are an attempt to justify that feeling.
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
