RE: Is Evolution a science or a faith?
August 4, 2014 at 9:01 am
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2014 at 9:02 am by Cyberman.)
WTF is this, Harris's personal Facebook wall or something?
Nope - it's not that I have the belief that "God" does not exist - I do not have the belief that "God" does exist. It's the difference between saying I don't believe the coin came down head and saying I believe it came down tails. Please stop telling me and others what we believe. It's astonishingly arrogant.
Of course you can... if you don't mind me reporting you for deliberate misquoting.
(August 3, 2014 at 4:17 pm)Harris Wrote:(July 28, 2014 at 7:43 pm)Stimbo Wrote: However, that's not even the point. My question to you was in response to your contention that atheists believe "God" doesn't exist. My position is I lack the belief that the character does exist. Now the ball is in your court.
“There is no God,” it is a BELIEF. You like it or not but this is the truth. You can’t run away by saying it is a lack of Belief. You believe in the non-existence of God without any doubt.
Nope - it's not that I have the belief that "God" does not exist - I do not have the belief that "God" does exist. It's the difference between saying I don't believe the coin came down head and saying I believe it came down tails. Please stop telling me and others what we believe. It's astonishingly arrogant.
(August 3, 2014 at 4:17 pm)Harris Wrote:(July 28, 2014 at 8:34 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Please quote a single post of mine in which I ever said anything approaching this.
For the sake of argument, if I grant that you never said that ATHEISM IS NOT A FAITH. Can I then take it that you are saying ATHEISM IS IN FACT A FAITH?
Of course you can... if you don't mind me reporting you for deliberate misquoting.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
