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"Lack"
Edwardo Piet Away
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RE: "Lack"
November 12, 2008 at 8:48 pm
The truth is desirable. And the truth should be sought and pursued, researched and investigated, etc.
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RE: "Lack"
November 17, 2008 at 4:14 pm (This post was last modified: November 17, 2008 at 4:16 pm by Daystar.)
(November 9, 2008 at 8:26 am)Tiberius Wrote: I always hear atheists saying how they "lack" belief in God. To me, this is a rather silly thing to say. The verb "lack" means a deficiency or absence of something that should be there.

Yet as we all know, faith in God has to be taught. We are all born atheists (at least passively), so evidently disbelief in God cannot be seen as a lack. It is a disbelief, a non-belief, whatever, but not a "lack" of a belief.

Did we evolve into a lack of god or away from it?
(November 12, 2008 at 8:48 pm)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: The truth is desirable. And the truth should be sought and pursued, researched and investigated, etc.

Truth is as subjective as desire.
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RE: "Lack"
November 17, 2008 at 4:22 pm
(November 17, 2008 at 4:14 pm)Daystar Wrote: Did we evolve into a lack of god or away from it?

Maybe we regressed, who knows?
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RE: "Lack"
November 17, 2008 at 4:24 pm
(November 17, 2008 at 4:22 pm)leo-rcc Wrote:
(November 17, 2008 at 4:14 pm)Daystar Wrote: Did we evolve into a lack of god or away from it?

Maybe we regressed, who knows?

Yeah ... who knows.
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RE: "Lack"
November 17, 2008 at 9:39 pm (This post was last modified: November 17, 2008 at 9:40 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(November 17, 2008 at 4:14 pm)Daystar Wrote: Truth is as subjective as desire.
Well yes, but only if you mean that the objective truth of reality is perceived though a subjective lens. The point is that scientific truth can be demonstrated and verified and there are scientific truths that are backed up by huge amounts of evidence.
And of course in the case of God this is not the case. As Richard Dawkins says: "Science offers us an explanation of how complexity (the difficult) arose out of simplicity (the easy). The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain. It postulates the difficult to explain, and leaves it at that."
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