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Interesting video. The only thing I disagree with is that it does not take faith to be an atheist. It does not take faith to be an agnostic. (Atheism and agnosticism are indeed quite different.) Atheism has faith in the assumption that there is no god. Is there any scientific proof for the existence or non-existence of God? The universe is big enough that there is indeed a chance that a divine creator could exist and just not care about a planet that is a spec of dust on the outer rim of one of the countless galaxies in this universe. With our very limited knowledge of the universe we inhabit such a case and many others are possible, though perhaps not probable, and dismissing them without proof based on our limited understanding of the universe does require faith.
Last edited by Randomstudent; 04-20-2009 at 02:04 AM..
Interesting video. The only thing I disagree with is that it does not take faith to be an atheist. It does not take faith to be an agnostic. (Atheism and agnosticism are indeed quite different.) Atheism has faith in the assumption that there is no god.
Not so. An Atheist believes that the available evidence suggests that there is no God. That's not a statement of faith. It's a description of what the evidence indicates is most likely. The atheist doesn't believe the evidence supports they hypothesis that there is a god, and in fact probably thinks the evidence contradicts a hypothesis.
Beyond that, when a person makes an extraordinary claim (and a supernatural God is about as extraordinary as they get) the burden is on them to prove it, and they must have equally extraordinary evidence. An atheist is a person who has determined that the theist haven't met their burden of proof.
But it's not about faith.
An agnostics takes no position. He is not committed to believing or disbelieving in a God.
Is there any scientific proof for the existence or non-existence of God?
With our very limited knowledge of the universe we inhabit such a case and many others are possible, though perhaps not probable, and dismissing them without proof based on our limited understanding of the universe does require faith.
Hmmmmmmmmmm
May have to buckle down and study harder to find the true answers on this one.
Not so. An Atheist believes that the available evidence suggests that there is no God. That's not a statement of faith. It's a description of what the evidence indicates is most likely. The atheist doesn't believe the evidence supports they hypothesis that there is a god, and in fact probably thinks the evidence contradicts a hypothesis.
Beyond that, when a person makes an extraordinary claim (and a supernatural God is about as extraordinary as they get) the burden is on them to prove it, and they must have equally extraordinary evidence. An atheist is a person who has determined that the theist haven't met their burden of proof.
But it's not about faith.
But I have seen a lot of faith being put towards the explanations of experiments with regard bacteria & viruses.
But I have seen a lot of faith being put towards the explanations of experiments with regard bacteria & viruses.
I'm sorry, but I haven't.
In fact, I don't even know how a person could have faith in an explanation of an experiment, or even what that's supposed to mean. Sorry.
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