[Ham] Yes, and America's leading atheist Richard Dawkins, who quoted him in his book 'The God Delusion', defines a "delusion" as a persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence.
What is the contradictory evidence? [Krimel] Comments like this are what make you impossible to take seriously, Ham. "America's leading atheist" is Brit. An Arizona Star reader, commenting on the article posted the following quote from the UK's former leading atheist. The quote applies equally well to your entire philosophy of double negation sensitive dependence on being whatever... "If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is an intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time." --Bertrand Russell, 1952 Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
