(October 18, 2014 at 5:35 pm)Lek Wrote:(October 18, 2014 at 4:50 pm)Aoi Magi Wrote: You do realize that most of the atheists here started off as Christians, right? And something "science cannot explain" isn't god by default, ever heard of "god-of-the-gaps"?
Yeah. Isn't kind of like "science of the gaps"--"I don't know how the cosmos came about, but we'll discover that some day." Or "You think that you experience God, but you really don't. You're just crazy or lying because that's impossible." Or "The cancer didn't really just go away. It was just a physical abnormality or the person is lying because it's impossible."
Don't be absurd. We simply don't claim to know that which is not known.
And you mischaracterize a skeptic's view - are you dishonest or genuinely stupid?
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.