(October 31, 2014 at 1:16 am)Heywood Wrote:(October 30, 2014 at 11:53 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Well, in all truthfulness I think that the propositions Yahweh is god and Jesus was the son of god are fiction. I have committed due to lack of evidence where evidence ought to exist. But, I really have not committed on the subject of whether any god at all exists. There simply isn't enough evidence to commit. I see no evidence that one does, but it's far from an impossibility, just not a very likely possibility.
Its impossible for me to know what goes on in your mind. I simply have no knowledge of it. However I have committed to a belief that people who are members of and regularly participate in discourse on an atheist internet forum would not view the following propositions indifferently
God or gods exist.
God or gods do not exist.
They would not view them indifferently like they would these propositions.
Heywood has brown hair.
Heywood has red hair.
Heywood has hair of some other color.
Heywood has no hair.
Maybe my belief is wrong.
Having an interest in the outcome of a question does not imply the need to commit to one side of a question or the other. I'll give you an example. Lockheed recently announced a breakthrough in nuclear fusion. If Lockheed succeeds it could mean almost infinite clean power. The outcome is of grave importance. Will it really happen in the next ten years? I don't know. I certainly don't see a need to choose sides.
Now consider the question of a god not interested in the human race or indeed of interfering with much of anything that we notice, does it's existence or lack there of matter as much as harnessing nuclear fusion? Not to me.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.



