Your heart tells you God exists.

[Stavros]

And yet, in a debate with the Archbishop of Canterbury, even Richard Dawkins had to admit that he is not sure that God does not exist...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/reli...not-exist.html

[firkin]

"Beer is proof that God exists, and he loves us."
Ben Franklin

End of the debate, now back to the TnA

[SunshyneMonroe]

Thanks for the post its been a very good watch so far...

[JohnnyVee]

[loren]

"Beer is proof that God exists, and he loves us."
Ben Franklin

End of the debate, now back to the TnA

how true lol

[maaarc]

"Beer is proof that God exists, and he loves us."
Ben Franklin

End of the debate, now back to the TnA

Ben was a very wise and good man whenever, I have his picture in my wallet all the girls like me and even I can get laid YaY

[Nicole Dupre]

My heart tells me god does not exist.

[TempestTS]

All the old God's are dead... all hail the new flesh.

[mrtrebus]

And yet, in a debate with the Archbishop of Canterbury, even Richard Dawkins had to admit that he is not sure that God does not exist...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/reli...not-exist.html

& yet religious people refuse to allow room for doubt despite no evidence for god, at all!

[trish]

And yet, in a debate with the Archbishop of Canterbury, even Richard Dawkins had to admit that he is not sure that God does not exist...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/reli...not-exist.html

Dawkins' position in that instance is quite admirable. His atheism is not a matter of faith but of reason. With faith one can commit to a belief and be 100% certain of it's truth. But what is the value of a 100% commitment to the truth of a proposition that can still be wrong?

I have some confidence in the laws of aerodynamics. Enough confidence that I'm willing at times to travel by jet between distant cities. The confidence comes from theory and practice; i.e. an understanding of the mathematics of lift and experiential knowledge that planes do fly and I've been in them.

Now in order to take the risk of flying I need more than confidence in the laws of aerodynamics, I also need confidence in the engineer that built the plane, the airline's willingness to maintain its fleet, the pilot, the controllers, the schedulers, etc. etc. etc. Some of that confidence comes again from experience with all those things. But some of that confidence is simply faith that people will do their jobs competently and responsibly. That faith is not 100%.

Beware of anyone who says they are absolutely 100% certain of their claims. They may in fact be absolutely 100% certain, but they have no good reason to be.

I see no reasonable theory of gods that is explanatory in any way, nor do I see any objective evidence that gods exist. I see no universal agreement on even what a god would be. Specific conceptualizations of the gods are easy to debunk. Like Dawkins, I'm not 100% certain the Greek pantheon doesn't exist. But I'm confident enough that you won't catch me wasting my time sacrificing to Athena. The same goes for Jehovah, Odin, Thor, Christ or the gods of Easter Island. For all practical purposes you can call me an atheist.