RE: Earth
March 19, 2015 at 6:38 am
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2015 at 6:42 am by Alex K.)
(March 18, 2015 at 8:35 pm)whateverist Wrote: Atheists just study the facts impartially the way any good Vulcan would and follow the facts wherever they lead.
Yeah, right, in what universe

(March 19, 2015 at 6:35 am)Smaug Wrote: It's sometimes hard to separate atheism, deism and agnosticism.
I'd say that in deism, it's kind of a continuous sliding scale from abstract principle of nature to personal creator with a mind, and so it's not strictly separable in principle unless you specify what your deism does, precisely. What agnosticism means has been subject of much debate - I come down on the side of it being orthogonal to the theist-atheist spectrum, and that one can be a gnostic atheist or an agnostic atheist. To a critical thinker, gnostic=bad. Of course, this only applies to God concepts that are logically sound. I can be gnostic about there not being a God with inconsistent properties.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition