Re: virus: Atheism, Reasonables, Scientists

From: Erik Aronesty (erik@zoneedit.com)
Date: Wed Oct 15 2003 - 07:34:38 MDT

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    I think it's too hard to disprove God...

    However it's easy to show that faith in the existence of God can be useful for uniting people behind arbitrary causes whose guidance was declared as being inspired by God. Thus God has effectively served as a force of centralized human power and control. This I would regard as a negative consequence.

    On the other hand, the search for God or animus has resulted in many of mankinds sciences. The quest for God is also a quest for understanding our universe. Thus it is the search for truth or a search for the fundamental properties of the universe.

    Since that is the case, perhaps we should state that we do not yet know whether God or a universal truth exists, but we encourage actively seeking these things. If only to keep the seeking alive?

    -----Original Message-----
    From: aperick@centurytel.net
    Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 12:07:36
    To:<virus@lucifer.com>
    Subject: virus: Atheism, Reasonables, Scientists

    [Ant]
    I'll leave atheism to someone else, but agnostic, in a broad sense,
    means "one who is not committed to believing in either the existence or
    the nonexistence of God or a god". [www.m-w.com]

    So what are we of the CoV, we brights, we unchurched committed to? Is
    there one tenet that is common to all of us? Surely it is a commitment
    to reason?

    So we're reasonables...

    [aperick]
    Are we not committed to, not only Reason, sweet reason with a capital R. But
    also to a larger method: the Scientific method. It will always eventually
    lead in the direction of truth, since proper Scientists are NEVER
    'completely' committed to any view of reality.

    I argue at great length in favor of Atheism (Scientific Atheism) in:

    http://home.centurytel.net/rickw/aon.htm 

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