RE: Atheists... why do you believe that God doesn't exist?
April 18, 2014 at 8:05 am
(This post was last modified: April 18, 2014 at 8:07 am by Tonus.)
(April 17, 2014 at 6:54 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: You can't prove its not real. Dead right. I can't prove independently that it's real either."Independently"? I am curious of what you mean by that.
Aside from that, I have no problem with your stance. I believe that god does not exist. I readily admit that I cannot prove he does not. You believe that god exists, and cannot prove that he is real. At the least, I have yet to see anyone prove that god is real (including myself, during a lengthy period when I was just as certain that he did exist as I am now certain that he does not).
I do think that I have the easier task, since my only burden requires that life continue as it ever has. If it doesn't, and I happen to be struck blind on my way to Damascus, my primary concern will be to ask that glowing figure "wait, wait, before you go... which deity is it you represent? And please... BE SPECIFIC."
(April 18, 2014 at 7:21 am)Aral Gamelon Wrote: When did enrico get a second account?
fr0d0 is intentionally funny or ironic.
"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
