On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 9:57 PM, Telmo Menezes <te...@telmomenezes.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 9:42 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <stath...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On Wed., 1 Feb. 2017 at 4:32 am, Telmo Menezes <te...@telmomenezes.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> > Are you really agnostic about the god of theism? >>> >>> Quoting from wikipedia: >>> >>> "The term theism derives from the Greek theos meaning "god". The term >>> theism was first used by Ralph Cudworth (1617–1688).[5] In Cudworth's >>> definition, they are "strictly and properly called Theists, who >>> affirm, that a perfectly conscious understanding being, or mind, >>> existing of itself from eternity, was the cause of all other >>> things".[6] >>> Atheism is commonly understood as rejection of theism in the broadest >>> sense of theism, i.e. the rejection of belief in a god or gods.[7] The >>> claim that the existence of any deity is unknown or unknowable is >>> agnosticism.[8][9]" >>> >>> I would say that, under these definitions, the correct scientific >>> stance is to be agnostic. >>> >>> In this mailing list, we have seen hypothesis about such a mind that >>> do not require man-in-the-sky, creationism or other absurdities, nor >>> conflict with current scientific models. Are they correct? I don't >>> know, so... >> >> >> Is agnosticism about God different from agnosticism about other entities >> such as fairies and elves? > > I would argue that man-in-the-sky god is the same as fairies and > elves: the likelihood of these things being real is extraordinary > slow. But that is not a particularly interesting fact...
I meant to write "extraordinarily small" > Telmo. > >> -- >> Stathis Papaioannou >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
