(November 3, 2014 at 4:00 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(November 3, 2014 at 3:55 pm)Faith No More Wrote: That's what we've been trying to tell you. Atheism isn't a worldview. It's the result of an epistemological stance.Here's what confuses me. I have exactly the same epidemiological stance, apply reason to experience, and yet I reach a different conclusion, i.e. God exists. Why then, is my belief in God a worldview and your opposite conclusion not one? Moreover, having reached that conclusion I can carry that over as the premise of further inquiry. Why are atheists incapable of doing the same?
I would be willing to bet that we have differing evidentiary standards.
I don't see the world, or the human body, or the complexity of the galactic dance, as evidence of deity, for the simple reason that there are other reasons which do not beggar belief and are at the same time sufficient to explain our observations. Occam's Razor, as I'm sure you've figured out by now.
Additionally, while I've got a hell of a lot of respect for your knowledge of philosophy (a field I don't know very well, and still distrust), I don't think that you can reason something into existence as easily as you can reason something out of existence. For that reason, before I change the switches on my control board, I want to see better evidence, supported by reasoning which explains those observations.
I have yet to come across a theistic worldview that doesn't beggar our understanding of the world as we know it. And in that event, I prefer to be circumspect, and accord credence to that which makes sense. And a creator god makes no sense.
