On Apr 6, 2007, at 8:28 PM, Helio W. wrote:
> I used to think as you do, Ed! But I got convinced by "The God
> Delusion". In the book Dawkins argues that "god's existence" (or not)
> can be approach as a scientific hypothesis.
Scientifically you cannot disprove a negative. You can determine
that its probability is arbitrarily low, but there is always that
remaining probability.
Having said that, I take a different tack than either of those two.
I simply don't consider the question as having any meaning. I
wouldn't waste my time and effort proving that the Flying Spaghetti
Monster doesn't exist; I am already satisfied that it is nothing more
than a clever lampooning of supernaturalists. Similarly, I am already
satisfied that there is no Allah, no Zeus, no Jove, no Yahweh, no
Jesus, no Krishna, no Mithras... they are all myths. I have no need
to convince myself of this. The only reason to do so would be to
convince others, and I don't believe that such an act is even
possible. The God meme is simply too powerful, and too crucial to
people's world view that they would resist any attempt to kill it
with all the force their minds can muster. So let them have their
myths; for the vast majority those myths provide structure in their
daily lives, and comfort in times of trouble and suffering. It is
only the ones who seek to impose their myths on others who are a
problem, and a priori those people cannot be reasoned with, so why
waste the energy.
-- Ed Leafe
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