(January 4, 2015 at 8:57 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: If logic leads you to belief, is it not truthful?
I wouldn't have thought so, otherwise there wouldn't be 9/11 truthers and Apollo Hoax Believers, many of whom presumably consider their beliefs to be perfectly logical. If the information being logically assessed is faulty or incomplete, any belief based on it is going to be as well.
(January 4, 2015 at 8:57 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: You don't believe in something because you don't know anything about it. Like the atheist, you abstain from position. You and I may be in the same footing on that. No, you believe because you are convinced one way or the other. To the best of your knowledge, truth has led you to your beliefs.
Right, inasmuch as I hold any beliefs in this subject at all; which I don't. I am willing to be convinced, however. All it takes is that e-word.
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.'
