(February 12, 2014 at 7:19 am)Esquilax Wrote: It's something of a coping mechanism in place of not having any evidence, to me; they can't rise to the level of objective justification for their beliefs, so the only choice left is to drag us down to theirs. And so, rather than just questioning them, the reason we're giving them trouble is because we've got our own ideological agenda that's counter to theirs. At that point, our position is just opinion, no better than theirs.
Science as a method has an agenda as much as saying gravity exists is an agenda.
Opinion? No, science is not atheist based and I've met some people calling themselves atheists with just as whacked out beliefs as any god claim. "Atheist" is not an "agenda".
We are entitled to our own opinions but not our own facts.
The ability to express an opinion from a legal standpoint is not the issue. The credibility of any given claim is the issue. Not all claims are equal by default.
