| </span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (nature of reality,)
I don't believe in god. Athiest.
If grant intellectual ambilivalence to every notion, you negate the power of the mind. Plus the whole "can you prove he DOESN"T exist" arguement is crap--it shifts the burden of proof. Things dont' exist until proven otherwise.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
Then radio waves did not exist before they were proven to? Or radioactivity didn't exist until it was shown to? Ooh, that means that there really was a young universe until humans proved that radioactivity existed, thus allowing the universe to be truly ancient. Seems like an overly-idealist philosophy to me.
Oh, you meant that we shouldn't accept that things exist until we can prove that they do? Do we get to suspect, or to act on the possibility that they exist? If so, this is a fine principle for science. But that has nothing to do with belief systems. If science can say nothing about something, currently or perhaps ever, we either figure we don't know or we adopt a belief system that says that we do based on faith.
So, I remain an agnostic. I just don't have the faith that you atheists do. |