(January 31, 2014 at 2:26 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Some atheists display cognitive dissonance about meaning and purpose. On the one hand they insist that the natural world has no teleological properties. Then they turn around and claim their lives can still have significance, thereby inserting teleology back into reality.
Not a bit of cognitive dissonance here.
My purpose (or 'significance', why the change in terms, Chad?) is only locally meaningful. In other words, meaningful to me and my social group.
There is no teleological significance to it at all.
I can't believe you didn't get this. I guess I overestimated your intelligence.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
