RE: My blog
February 24, 2015 at 9:36 pm
(This post was last modified: February 24, 2015 at 9:42 pm by watchamadoodle.)
The "logical fallacies" were helpful to me due to my ignorance of logic.
The "what is an atheist" page is good.
There might be circumstances where an atheist is forced to choose based on probability, investment cost, and potential returns of a theistic claim. Maybe the atheist is sick and a faith healer will use some mumbo jumbo for a small fee. In your even/odd scenario, an atheist might bet against the theistic claim that the odds are not 50/50. Assuming the theist is delusional, then the atheist can take his/her money.
I used to have a problem with the idea of atheists believing nothing. How can atheists believe nothing, because we all are forced to make choices based on probabilities we assign to different theories? After debating this question on another forum, I finally came-up with a satisfactory answer. Atheists believe methodological naturalism. Theists believe methodological naturalism too, but they add some theistic beliefs to hide the gaps in our knowledge. It is very easy to have no beliefs about the gaps in knowledge. We don't know about these gaps, because they don't affect our lives very much. If these gaps affected our lives, then we would have enough data to close the gaps. So atheists believe nothing about the unknowns that don't affect our lives very much (such as an imaginary God who rarely does anything except helping people find their car keys sometimes).
(I'm not suggesting you change your blog of course - just telling you some things that used to bother me about atheism.)
The "what is an atheist" page is good.
There might be circumstances where an atheist is forced to choose based on probability, investment cost, and potential returns of a theistic claim. Maybe the atheist is sick and a faith healer will use some mumbo jumbo for a small fee. In your even/odd scenario, an atheist might bet against the theistic claim that the odds are not 50/50. Assuming the theist is delusional, then the atheist can take his/her money.
I used to have a problem with the idea of atheists believing nothing. How can atheists believe nothing, because we all are forced to make choices based on probabilities we assign to different theories? After debating this question on another forum, I finally came-up with a satisfactory answer. Atheists believe methodological naturalism. Theists believe methodological naturalism too, but they add some theistic beliefs to hide the gaps in our knowledge. It is very easy to have no beliefs about the gaps in knowledge. We don't know about these gaps, because they don't affect our lives very much. If these gaps affected our lives, then we would have enough data to close the gaps. So atheists believe nothing about the unknowns that don't affect our lives very much (such as an imaginary God who rarely does anything except helping people find their car keys sometimes).
(I'm not suggesting you change your blog of course - just telling you some things that used to bother me about atheism.)
