On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 9:57 PM, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 9:42 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Wed., 1 Feb. 2017 at 4:32 am, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> >> 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 [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
