RE: The nearness to God factor. How do Atheists feel about moving higher or lower?
April 21, 2014 at 3:29 pm
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2014 at 3:31 pm by Chas.)
(April 21, 2014 at 2:08 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: My guess is that those who ground their morality in our genetic heritage would, if they were consistent, strive for greater conformity to evolutionary impulses. Otherwise they would evoke the very transcendent principles they deny.
Except no one does. Nice straw man.
(April 21, 2014 at 3:19 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: An argument can be made on the lines of this.
When we perform good actions and become better people, we ascend in stages of existence.
Ascension in stages of existence is only explained by existence of God.
Therefore God exists.
Interested in which of these two premises Atheists here have a problem with. 1 or 2? Or both?
Again, ascend what? There is reality and there is unreality. You are firmly stuck in the latter.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
