(July 28, 2014 at 8:19 am)Harris Wrote: If there is no God or anything supernatural (a creator) then there is nothing.
Is someone paying you money to say increasingly stupid things? If there is no God or anything supernatural, all that's left is everything that exists.
f you have FAITH in nothingness instead of God only then you can have belief in things like evolution, multiuniverse, blind and unguided forces etc.[/quote]
I don't even believe there ever was actual nothingness, and I've never met an atheist who does. That's how badly you misunderstand us.
(July 28, 2014 at 8:19 am)Harris Wrote: Without having Faith in something, you cannot have belief in that thing. In any case FAITH is crucial for mind to work or not to work.
Not faith with a capital 'F'. The only faith our minds need to function day-to-day is that which is best defined as 'justified confidence or trust in a person or thing', not 'belief without evidence or proof'. I need enough faith to sit in a chair without worrying it will collapse or turn into a parsnip, I clearly don't need to believe that it wouldn't support me if not for the will of a divine being. I'm not THAT heavy.

I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.