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"Old" atheism, "New"atheism, atheism 3.0, WTF?
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RE: "Old" atheism, "New"atheism, atheism 3.0, WTF?
(January 23, 2010 at 7:11 am)fr0d0 Wrote: That's not what I meant. I have zero belief in superstition, and am suggesting that religious observance could be entirely naturally based, there being no supernatural component in reality. It depends how far you want to take interpretation down the literalist or allegorical route.

For example: God's effect on the universe is entirely natural. God instigated nature so this couldn't be any other way.
But that is the god of the gaps. Nothing can be attributed to him that's observable, verifiable and stated in falsifiable terms. The minute it is established through empirical evidence that our visible universe originated from a collision in the multiverse, your god has to retract to not only the 'outside' of the universe, but also to the 'outside' of the multiverse. As long as nothing of your god is observable, verifiable and can't be stated in falsifiable terms labeling it as 'natural' has no meaning it all.
"I'm like a rabbit suddenly trapped, in the blinding headlights of vacuous crap" - Tim Minchin in "Storm"
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
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"Old" atheism, "New"atheism, atheism 3.0, WTF? - by leo-rcc - January 21, 2010 at 10:04 am
RE: "Old" atheism, "New"atheism, atheism 3.0, WTF? - by LEDO - January 22, 2010 at 9:06 pm
RE: "Old" atheism, "New"atheism, atheism 3.0, WTF? - by LEDO - January 23, 2010 at 3:33 pm
RE: "Old" atheism, "New"atheism, atheism 3.0, WTF? - by Purple Rabbit - January 23, 2010 at 7:20 am

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