On 26/02/2008, at 2:54 PM, Doug Pensinger wrote: > > > So how would you define your atheism?
You phrase it like it's a belief. It's not. I spent a long time exploring my Christianity, and in the end found it empty. So I stopped believing. I do not believe in gods, ghosts, telepathy, bigfoot, bunyips or the loch ness monster. I think it likely on balance of evidence that all gods are human constructs (why else do they all act so much like people...). Maybe there's a creator or supreme being, but if there is it's truly beyond the petty super-humans of our myths. It makes no difference to me, anyway. > > >> >> Just 'cause one can imagine something, it doesn't mean it's actually >> true, or indeed mean it isn't. There's a little thing called data. If >> we get some that shows that there may actually be transcendental >> races >> of "Old Ones" or whatever, then fantastic. Until then, it's fantasy, >> sci-fi, or wishful thinking. >> > > But then where would we be if we had _no_ imagination? Sitting in caves. Or possibly trees. Charlie. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
