(February 19, 2013 at 1:47 am)rexbeccarox Wrote: What's love got to do with it?... and on that note, what's faith got to do with it?
People who are theists have faith in the future and generally predict a positive outcome for themselves. Love can stimulate similar feelings.
Running on purely science, I don't feel that. I have to take that experience into account whenever I converse with anyone else. They have about a 3/4 chance of believing in a better future for themselves with no evidence of it whatsoever, regardless of religion.
(February 19, 2013 at 1:47 am)rexbeccarox Wrote:Quote:Dawkins, in his 1986 book, The Blind Watchmaker:
“This book is written in the conviction that our own existence once presented the greatest of all mysteries, but that it is a mystery no longer because it is solved.”
I think that is a fallacy. 96% of this universe is unaccounted for.
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There is the possibility that a person on earth could be god, no matter how slim that is. There is also a possibility santa and tooth fairies could be real. There is also the possibility of a similar universe or solar system or planet or species...
I know you are focussing on what we have now, and I agree there is no evidence for this shit. But equally I can't experience what anyone else experiences. I've had pretty intense hallucinations and dreams before. I've known schizophrenic people. When you consider the size of the universe their experience is just as significant as mine.
