RE: Nature's Laws
May 22, 2015 at 2:29 pm
(This post was last modified: May 22, 2015 at 2:31 pm by Cyberman.)
(May 22, 2015 at 2:21 pm)Freedom4me Wrote: True, but skepticism is nothing but a starting point in the quest for knowledge; not the goal. The unstated assumption of the assertion "atheism is (or ought to be) the default position" certainly sounds like skepticism on its face, but in practice it gets turned (by some atheists) into dogma. This particular assertion doesn't become more than an assertion simply by adding to it the assertion that the theist hasn't yet supplied any evidence for his theism.
That's why it's the default position. In your own apparent motivation to turn acting the contrarian into dogma, I don't think you realise that you agree with me on this.
So taking that point, it also doesn't become an assertion merely because you keep asserting it must be an assertion.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
