Ed, But superstitious people are always trying to convert people and influence everybody's lives. From taking money from naive people with stupid self-help gibberish to trying to prevent stem-cell research, these people are very active.
How can we tolerate and fight ignorance at the same time? On 4/6/07, Ed Leafe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- http://leafe.com > -- http://dabodev.com > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
