(March 16, 2015 at 10:55 pm)Surgenator Wrote:There isn’t one atheist on this board that will unequivocally state that the universe exist for no purpose. They may attempt to qualify it with an adjunct like that it has meaning for them, or they make their lives meaningfully. If by some quirky chance one ever did flat out state that, they wouldn’t get any kudos as a stamp-of-approval. There is a reason that won’t be done.(March 16, 2015 at 10:41 pm)snowtracks Wrote: There are these sources of knowledge - http://www.theoryofknowledge.info/sources-of-knowledge/ - and there is a third source; revealed biblical revelation. Why the third? The other two are inadequate for certain topics; for instance, everyone should be able, at a minimum, give at least 3 reasons for the purposeful existence of the universe.
Revelation is not a source of knowledge. At best it is hearsay, at worst a delusion. In either case, it is not knowledge.
Atheist Credo: A universe by chance that also just happened to admit the observer by chance.