January 18th, 2009
Ask Me About ID
Dear non-existent God,
Thank you for your crazy followers and all the humorous things they do to justify your existence.
Dear non-existent God,
Thank you for your crazy followers and all the humorous things they do to justify your existence.
January 18th, 2009 at 2:31 am
I have no beef with Intelligent Design. As I sit here with my bald head, aching back, and reading glasses, the only evidence I can find is for Not Intelligent Enough Design.
January 20th, 2009 at 7:18 am
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January 29th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Greetings.
Jean-Paul Sartre in Existentialism is a humanism” said (i paraphrase) : One could spend his entire life trying to prove God doesnt exist and he would not suceed. All we need as atheists, is to be coherent.”
The problem with both Intelligent Design and mainstream darwinism is that none of them are neutral.
Those who favor Intelligent Design postulate that the material world was created by a Omniscient Designer while most darwinists teach that existence happened by chance. That it was completely contingent.
None of these hypothesis are neutral.
Evolutionists have a iron case on how we came to happen to life but cant say a thing about where we come from before or what happened before the Big Bang or why.
The idea of absence of Divinity and the contingency of life is a belief not a fact.
I do not know if Intelligent design claims that the Earth was created some 5000+ years ago.
I think they simply claim that the Universe didnt happened by chance but i do hope they dont believe such things as humans having appeared before flowers and trees.
Im a muslim. We believe in a Creation but we dont have detailed stories about the creation similar to what their is in Genesis.
Thats why the vast majority of muslim intellectuals of any discipline have no quarrel with Evolution.
Of all civilizations, only in Christianity have we seen such a harsh fight between knowledge and spirituality.
The opposition between science and religion as a whole is invalid.
Atheist belief in the absence of transcendence has not shown any superiority in any field of human beauty, dignity, truthfulness, wisdom and peace making.
Has a matter of fact, none of the great spiritual central caracters of the history of mankind were atheists.
But to paraphrase a philosopher whose name i forgot, atheism is useful because it is a potential ally in the process of humanization of mankind because scepticism breeds intelligence and defies moral, intellectual and spiritual laziness or worse, failure.
And but of course, if that profile fits many believers it also befits many atheists.
P.S. Cool cartoons. I especially liked the Chomsky series.
Peace
February 1st, 2009 at 11:29 am
Thanks for the comments. Regarding your statement “The idea of absence of Divinity and the contingency of life is a belief not a fact.”
It’s actually neither a belief nor a fact. The rejection of belief is not a belief itself. You don’t believe that is no God call Zeus. You believe in a particular God which itself rules out the idea of Zeus.
Most atheists, you could say, believe in something, but it’s in the scientific process. And the scientific process posits that there is a natural explanation to how the world works.
February 3rd, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Hi
I agree, rejection of belief is not a belief in itself.
But to say that there is no divinity, that there is no consciousness after death and that creation is contingent is a positive existential position, ie. a belief.
I think that im not qualified enough to discuss thoroughly the subject of ID and darwinism as they are teached in the US (i am not familiar with the content of the teachings) but it is seems to me, from what i have heard from the different positions, that darwinists state that the universe’s coming into being was contingent.
That is not neutral. A truly neutral or secular position would be that of agnostics who say ” we dont know”… for Atheists claim: there is no Divinity, Theists claim: there is a Divinity where Agnostics claim: that they do not know.
It seems to me the best way to cut through the problem of what to teach kids in a truly neutral fashion, dont you think…
peace