(August 8, 2010 at 11:30 pm)padraic Wrote: So far,not one person in recorded history has provided any evidence for the exisetence of gods,the,soul,the supernatural,the paranormal, or fairies at the bottom of their garden, so I'm not holding my breath.
Well, you can point at the sky and say it's blue, and I can say, "prove it," and that's where the conversation ends. It's all very close-minded, just like religion. What's interesting is that you say you don't believe in God without ever bothering to define what God is.
I can say I don't believe in Santa Claus, but when I do, at least I have the sack to define what it is I don't believe in. I don't believe in a supernatural fat man with a white beard and flying raindeer who brings presents to children on Christmas. I do believe in the existence of an historical figure named Saint Nicholas, the Bishop of Myra in the third century.
So, you can say you're an atheist meaning you don't believe God exists, but until you supply a definition of God other than (whatever anyone calls God) you sound like a religious fundamentalist. In fact, you become a religious fundamentalist.
And this brings me to another thing that pisses me off about close-minded atheists: you act like it's enlightenment to believe in only what scientists tell you is real. Which really means you let others do your thinking for you, and then you follow them. Even worse, you refuse to think beyond any dimensions of the box they construct for you. How is thay intellectual? How is that smart or enlightened? I'd call it mentally handicapped. No?
