(August 30, 2008 at 5:35 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Exactly which bit of "I don't believe it until I see some evidence" did you not understand?
I am afraid that we are on a collision track.
To my opinion one can not be a front stage propagator of the ideas of atheism as you are and in the same time to believe in something very close to Destiny.
In other words God does not exist so he can not decide about the fate of any individual but may be that there are some hidden equations which we don't know, that determine our way in life in all its particulars from the craddle to death.
I am quite sure that you have read A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking and the way he explains Black holes based on the principle of uncertainity "borrowed" from the quantum mechanics.
Since he wrote this book went by 20 years and physicist have not only confirmed his hypothesises but extended the principle of uncertainity to new astronomic phenomena.
The principle of uncertainity means statistic laws and statistic laws means a dual coexistence of probable events and random ones.
Random events might be partially governed by deterministic laws which are at this stage of knowledge unknown to us but we agree as a basic feature of atheism that we don't know everything and that we don't atribute the things we don't know to God.
Following atheism is in no way in position to agree that the fate of the individual is in the hands of an unknown factor named Destiny.
I propose to bring this discussion to the opinions of as more members as possible.
Will we not agree we cuold ask the opinion of the Guru of atheism Richard Dawson.
I have a request: the problem is too serious so please- no foul language
