RE: New Athiest Needs Help
June 7, 2014 at 12:54 pm
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2014 at 12:58 pm by Brian37.)
QM really does not have an objection to something or nothing overlapping at the same time. Much the same way hurricanes could not exist prior to our planet. Instead of looking at QM as an either/or proposition, which is what unfortunately theism does, look at it as countless variables and conditions at play.
So it is more of "depends", not "either/or".
No, the fact that a majority of human beings have believed and do believe as a majority does not prove any god existing, all it proves is that humans are intellectually lazy most of the time and prefer a placebo over reality.
For the same reason if you really desperately want to believe that ink blot is a butterfly you will believe it. Most humans at one time also falsely believed the sun rotated around the earth.
The fact that humans concoct sugar pill thinking does not make the bullshit they concoct true.
So it is more of "depends", not "either/or".
(June 7, 2014 at 12:11 pm)Lek Wrote:(June 6, 2014 at 6:59 pm)ThomM Wrote: A logical person - when confronted with the sheer number of conflicting claims of various religions - would first look at the claim and eliminate those whose story includes things that do not agree with known reality - and the bible contains enough of that to be a comic book - not of use.
Scientists are logical and they don't eliminate claims that disagree with known reality. The fact that people have been recognizing and worshiping a higher supernatural being since the beginning of known human history shows that we have recognized his existence all along.
No, the fact that a majority of human beings have believed and do believe as a majority does not prove any god existing, all it proves is that humans are intellectually lazy most of the time and prefer a placebo over reality.
For the same reason if you really desperately want to believe that ink blot is a butterfly you will believe it. Most humans at one time also falsely believed the sun rotated around the earth.
The fact that humans concoct sugar pill thinking does not make the bullshit they concoct true.