RE: Atheistic Dogma- Scientific Fundamentalism
September 11, 2014 at 2:38 pm
(This post was last modified: September 11, 2014 at 2:41 pm by Cyberman.)
(September 11, 2014 at 2:27 pm)sswhateverlove Wrote: So, would you say that atheism encourages that continued search for confirming evidence? What happens when there is questionable evidence?
No. I'd say that atheism is the position of sitting and waiting for the theist to put compelling evidence on the table. All evidence is questionable. Whatever survives the questioning earns the status of becoming a data point. Everything else, however cherished, ends up in the rubbish tip. That's how knowledge advances.
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.'
