If I were to become an atheist...

If I were to become an atheist... Jan 25, 2018 0:00:33 GMT

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Post by Arlon10 on Jan 25, 2018 0:00:33 GMT

Jan 24, 2018 16:11:35 GMT captainbryce said:

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1 The great thing about being an atheist is that you don’t actually have to put faith in anything.

A really annoying thing about many atheists is that they actually believe they are entitled. You are indeed entitled to your own opinions. However, and this is very important, you are not entitled to your own facts. It is your opinion that no god exists. It is only your opinion. It is not more "reasonable" than other opinions. It is not a "default" opinion or a "status quo" opinion and it is certainly not an entitled opinion, that is to say not entitled to be counted as a fact.

It is just your opinion and it is not even half as good as you think it is.

You can't leave your residence in the morning to face the world without believing in something. You can call it "science" if you like, but it still requires quite much belief on your part in several things throughout the day.

You might think it is an especially different sort of belief if it is in science, but it is not. Either you can do the science yourself or you are just a believer. If you are just a believer then it is no longer "science" no matter who else can do whatever science. A terrible problem in the world today is how many things people believe science has proved that it really has not. The problem is blind faith in science.

2 Believing in religion to fill in gaps of knowledge is the opposite of “reason”.

   No, claiming you exercise reason when you don't is the opposite of reason. Admitting there are limits to reason is actually somewhat reasonable, and not the opposite at all.

   Until you, yourself using your own reasoning, not someone else's, can show where in nature is an explanation then that explanation is by definition "supernatural" as far as you are concerned. You need to admit that.

   You need to keep facts separate from opinions. The boiling point of water is a fact, whether it will snow next month in Oklahoma is an opinion. Yes, science has learned much about weather and has a better idea than it did before whether it will snow next month in Oklahoma, but no, it does not have an answer to how life began, except that nothing in nature is creating life from dead matter even after rather thorough scientific examination.