On 1/9/2013 7:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 09 Jan 2013, at 13:18, Roger Clough wrote:
According to Plato, all love, all truth, and all beauty comes from the One
(ie God). That being the case, when I experience love, truth or beauty, I
sense God's presence.
I can be OK with this, but this will not convince an atheist, who will tell you that if
"beauty" is god, then he believes in God, but that is not the God he is talking about
when declaring himself an atheist.
An atheist is just someone who does not believe in Santa Claus. Really.
Some people suggests that comp is two times more atheistic than atheism, because with
comp, not only the literal Christian God does not exist, but the myth or a primitive
material universe has to be abandoned too. I disagree because comp invite us firmly to
come back to the scientific notion of God (transcendental truth at the root of
everything, faith in reincarnation).
Science is always based on a religion.
?? Surely you mean a scientific theory is always based on a "religion" by which you
probably mean some basic assumptions. But it doesn't follow that science as a whole is
based on a (singular?) religion.
So what's your religion, Bruno? What are its tenets that you believe on faith? Who are
the adherents?
Brent
Scientist who pretend to have no religion are person who take so much their religion for
granted that they cannot doubt it, and so becomes pseudo-priest of some sort. It is
often the case with the (weak) materialist (as almost all people are still today).
Bruno
[Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net]
1/9/2013
"Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen
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