RE: Why your exsistence is more worthless than you previousy thought it was.
February 11, 2014 at 9:33 am
(February 11, 2014 at 8:32 am)Sword of Christ Wrote: It's still a faith if you can't be factually certain but you can't be factually certain that atheism is true either.It can only be faith if there is insufficient evidence or proof. Once you have sufficient evidence or proof there is no need for faith. Hence why an atheist is more accurately described as lacking faith.
Like any other lack of belief in something, be it unicorns or Santa Claus or the Loch Ness monster, we could clear up the "factual" uncertainty by proving the existence of the being(s) in question. Atheism "exists" for the same reason that people don't believe in leprechauns; no one has provided sufficient evidence or proof for the existence of god(s).
"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
