And... drum role...That is your belief... is it not? Atheists do not necessarily believe in a fundamental realness of matter, though many do. Can you show me any dogma which is univesally believed in by athiests that - on faith -- asserts the hypothesis of some fundamental material foundation for reality? Couldn't an athiest instead be open to, for example, a mathematical foundation from which that which we perceive as being matter emerges? I fail to see any a priori reason for which this could not be the case? Chris On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Kim Jones<[email protected]> wrote: Atheists have no special function or any special beliefs. They are a religion like any other. They believe in God's non-existence, that's all. They reject the notion of an immaterial "prima materia" because that appears to them self-contradictory and instead put a thing called "Matter" on the same pedestal and worship that instead. It's merely a fashionable alternative to the Abrahamic sky-fairy concept but has no particular virtues I am aware of other than that
Kim > On 26 Mar 2017, at 3:11 am, Evgenii Rudnyi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dominic Johnson > What are atheists for? Hypotheses on the functions of non-belief in the > evolution of religion > Religion, Brain & Behavior > Vol. 2, No. 1, February 2012, 48-99 > > http://dominicdpjohnson.com/publications/pdf/2012JohnsonWhatAreAtheistsFor.pdf > > "An explosion of recent research suggests that religious beliefs and > behaviors are universal, arise from deep-seated cognitive mechanisms, and > were favored by natural selection over human evolutionary history. However, > if a propensity towards religious beliefs is a fundamental characteristic of > human brains (as both by-product theorists and adaptationists agree), and/or > an important ingredient of Darwinian fitness (as adaptationists argue), then > how do we explain the existence > and prevalence of atheists - even among ancient and traditional societies?" > > -- > 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. -- 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.
