PoPpAScience Posted March 27, 2016 Share Posted March 27, 2016 This all sounds like emotional guesswork. I see so many claims of Truth and Proof, and no evidence to support them. Why do people think science looks for those things? Science isn't a religion, it needs reliable, trustworthy foundations, based in reality, not guesswork pumped up by emotional certainty. Atheism is a faith based belief system, and can be as dogmatic and emotional as religion. With the over whelming majority of scientist being atheist these days, there is a very restrictive and hostile environment for true philosophy to hold its place with science as it has for all human history. Just try to have a conversation about evolution with an atheist scientist, and see how emotional they will get. It always drops my jaw, to hear scientist disregard the imaginative nature of the mind and its precursory roll in scientific discovery. My first response to this phenomenon is, that it most be faith based atheist dogma driven. Without human imagination, there would not be any science ever conceived. We would just live on pure instincts like animals do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajb Posted March 27, 2016 Share Posted March 27, 2016 Atheism is a faith based belief system, and can be as dogmatic and emotional as religion. This seems very much off topic. But anyway, you are wrong on this. Atheism does not require blind faith, quite the opposite. Atheism denies the existence of a god or gods based on the problem of defining such entities and then providing evidence for their existence. Religion is quite the opposite: you suppose that such entities exists and do all you can to dodge the questions of evidence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoPpAScience Posted March 27, 2016 Author Share Posted March 27, 2016 Yes it is off topic and I was responding to a mods off topic response. Actually you are wrong. Denying the existence of something that science has made no effort to understand or discover, is a blind faith belief. To have the belief that anything to do with the creative process of the Universe has to be 'random flukiness', and the belief that any other discussion must have a God element to it, can be associated with a faith based belief system. So denying without proof is ok, but expressing with out proof is wrong. hmmmm! I was a diehard Atheist into my late thirties, but looked in the mirror one day and seen the impossible, 100 trillion trillion particles working in unison for me to look, and realized that I was wrong in denying the possibilities of less complicated or more complicated entities. I find it always funny, that questioning the faith of an atheist, always gets the response that the other is religious. There are those, like I, that try to avoid faith based beliefs, and follow the evidence where it leads. All evidence without prejudice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajb Posted March 27, 2016 Share Posted March 27, 2016 Yes it is off topic and I was responding to a mods off topic response. Start a new thread rather than hijack this one if you want to continue this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted March 27, 2016 Share Posted March 27, 2016 Yes it is off topic ! Moderator Note Which is against the rules, so one might wonder why you knowingly did it. and I was responding to a mods off topic response. ! Moderator Note No, not so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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