On 3/28/2017 3:50 PM, Kim Jones 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.
No, they just fail to believe in God's existence. And that makes a lot
of difference.
Brent
"Science flies to the moon. Religion flies into buildings."
--- Vic Stenger
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 <use...@rudnyi.ru> 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?"
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