(February 1, 2010 at 5:04 pm)LoveandLight Wrote: Atheism is interesting but I don't find comfort in cold hard logic and data driven beliefs. My instincts strongly oppose and science seems to new, it has been rewritten too many times.Science is rewritten because new data comes in that contradicts an already held idea. If an idea contradicts with the observable reality, it is evidently the wrong idea. Why should we stick with wrong ideas when we can adapt and change them to match what we see?
Atheism has nothing to do with cold, hard logic. Neither does it have anything to do with data driven beliefs. You have no idea what you are talking about, so either retract those statements or explain your meaning behind them.
(February 1, 2010 at 5:42 pm)Meatball Wrote: Even if science is a massive pyramid of knowledge built on observations of a collective illusion as you suggest, is it not still the best explanation of our existence that's available to us?Technically, the "truth" would be a better explanation. Science doesn't pretend to be the truth, only what is most likely given the material evidence. Science isn't 100% accurate, so the absolute truth would be the better explanation in all cases. Of course, I get where you are coming from; how we can know what is absolute truth and not is currently infeasible for us.
What would be a better explanation? How could anything else be a better explanation?
