(February 10, 2014 at 10:05 am)Sword of Christ Wrote: Therefore atheism must be mistaken, or you must at any rate believe to be mistaken in order to believe that you have freewill and a rational mind."Atheism" can only be "mistaken" about one thing, and no one seems to be able to demonstrate that it is mistaken.
And as theists prove, having a belief does not a reality make. Which is why I don't worry about whether or not I have "free will." I enjoy life quite a lot, and if it's the product of my own free decisions or the programming in my brain, either one is fine. That's one of the nice things about not believing in god; I don't have to worry that I'm not feeling miserable enough to satisfy him.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
