RE: The Case for Atheism
May 31, 2013 at 7:59 pm
(This post was last modified: May 31, 2013 at 8:19 pm by Terr.)
(May 30, 2013 at 4:14 am)apophenia Wrote:(May 29, 2013 at 10:25 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Can you name another situation where something would exist yet you would find no evidence that it does?
Multiple universes.
Read some intereresting papers suggesting bruising from collisions with other universes in the WMAP map of the cosmic background radiation, dranted it's early days. Can't find them right now but this is a good site that I visit often http://www.physics.princeton.edu/~steinh/
(May 26, 2013 at 3:37 pm)Drew_2013 Wrote: The problem is I can't be an intellectually satisfied athesit. Its not hard to have a mere 'lack of belief' in God the problem comes in attempting to explain the existence of the universe, life and sentient life if in fact God (an intelligent Creator) really doesn't exist.
I get what you saying, and I feel this hunger for an explaination is the root of faith. Seriously I would love to be able to believe that I will meet all my loved ones in some heaven. For me it boils down to this.
The universe appears, on the basis of the available evidence to have have a beginning (athough there are some physicists who say a changing is more appropriate) at the big bang. I do not know caused this, but to take ignorance of the facts and assume it must be supernatural is a bit of a leap for me. There was a time magnets were gods work too, mental illness the devils. Ignorance IS NOT information.
The formation of life is an interetsing field, and only a field in it's infancy. But from my limited knowledge it's chemistry, not random chance as many like to claim. Chemistry is not random.
Am I an intellectually satisfied atheist?, HELL YES. A universe without questions and mystery would be boring. I love this world.
