(May 22, 2010 at 2:11 pm)Watson Wrote: Atheist_named_Christian, I would take contention with you rpoint that Christians do not believe in logic, reason, or physical proof- we do, just in a very different way than an atheist or a deist. A much simpler form of logic is applied, in my mind, to the world when through a Christian view-point, and reason is used as much as possible. To say otherwise is simply untrue.
Well, in my world, there is only ONE SORT of logic, reason and evidence - you cannot use it in a "different way". I know that a lot of people who claim to be "Christians" use reason in their everyday lives (This is good, because otherwise we would live like 2000 years ago) - but this simply contradicts logic (in a strict, mathematical/philosophical sense), as most of the christian believes are in clear contradiction to physical evidence. Additionally, obviously none of these believes is backed up by any evidence at all.
However, to get back to the topic: I can clearly see, that a theist cannot understand what I wrote - that is why I especially asked the Deists and Atheists to answer.
I agree with Flying_sceptic, that for a Deist who does not believe in life after death (as Flew) nothing is "improved" from going from Atheist to Deist. However, as I stated before (and I don't think there wasan argument against it until now), I cannot see the difference between calling everything unknown "god" or simply "unknown" - what's the point?
