Since it was a busy day at work..my take on the whole athetist bus thing is that it is not an ad for something they don't believe in
Posted by
JD (aka Jason Dean)
Jan 29 '09, 18:42
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But instead a statement of their belief that there isn't anything to believe in.
I've always thought that in some sense, it is a far bigger test of faith to believe that there isn't anything there since that can never be absolutely proven.
By that I mean, we've seen things that were thought not to be possible turn out to be completely possible, it's just that we didn't have the ability to test correctly, ask the right questions, right place, right time and so on.
How does one go about definitely proving that something on this order doesn't exist?
There was a time when where we barely understood particle physics and there would have been many a leader in the field that would be perfectly happy that nothing could act outside of those limits. Now we've got the quantum behavior. It's not the quantum behavior didn't exist, we just didn't know enough to ask the right questions.
Believers get their respective histories, events, even possible modern miracles as possible evidence that there is.
Atheists get what? The ability to agree that something could be just around the corner that could prove that their belief something was completely wrong? It's not like I can definitely point to that because of this list of observables then there's nothing there in the middle. Ya just gotta believe.
And while it is probably not the point of the ads, I'd like to think that it is a statement of faith and belief as opposed to a pointless exercise of bringing up something that we don't believe in anyway.
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