(February 12, 2014 at 9:25 am)Esquilax Wrote:(February 12, 2014 at 9:13 am)Bob101 Wrote: It's fine if people are pretty indifferent to it and just want to live their life either believing or not believing. But I was asking the people who have a strong view point within Atheism if they have a logical reason for Materialism as opposed to Theism, or any other of the many theories of the cosmos. I actually know that there isn't a logical stand point for Atheism, so in asking the question I just wanted to gauge what people thought as one.
As I mentioned on the first page, you probably aren't going to meet a strong materialist here; you're going to meet a bunch of people who are honest about the limitations of their knowledge, and are content with that, as opposed to going further and tacking on additional claims they can't support. Atheism isn't materialism, and one doesn't have to be the latter if they identify as the former. You're attempting to tack on a concept here that most of us won't share in a way that would require us to provide evidence for it. For me, I accept that the physical world exists because I'm living in it, and I accept the things we can demonstrate about it; that's the end of my knowledge, so why would I indulge in a theistic position, or a purely materialist one, when instead I can just... admit where the end of my knowledge is?
And I'm a little worried at this point, because for someone who claims to be neither theistic nor atheist, you sure as hell seem to be falling victim to some theistic misrepresentations of atheism.
Yes I know the actual definition of Atheism, after all Buddhists and Hindu's technically Atheists. But there is a definite consensus in the current new wave of Atheism. And Atheism and Theism are not the only ways of looking at it!! This is pointless isn't it.
