On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Heather Madrone <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/28/10 11:37 PM November 28, 2010, Deepa Mohan wrote: >> >> Who are the ones who believe in God, on this list? The atheists? The >> agnostics? > > I believe it's a category error to talk about belief or lack of belief in > God. The question should raise a "CONCRETE OPERATOR INVALID ON ABSTRACT > OBJECT" exception. > > To my way of thinking, God is an abstract concept created by human beings. > As such, it has no real existence outside of the human mind. When we apply > the concept of God in the religious mode, however, we can get interesting > and useful results.
I dunno. I *believe* the axioms of Zermello-Fraenkel set theory in that they are things that I cannot prove but in accepting them on faith I find they help me reason in useful ways about the world and my place in it. On the other hand I don't *really* believe in The Axiom of Choice. I often act like I do for the sake of expedience, however I feel vaguely dirty afterwards, and need to confess and repent. YMMV. -- Charles PS but ZF+C feels so GOOD. It's so easy, I just sort of slip into it even though I know it wrong.
