And... drum role...That is your belief... is it not? Atheists do not necessarily believe in a fundamental realness of matter, though many do. Can you show me any dogma which is univesally believed in by athiests that - on faith -- asserts the hypothesis of some fundamental material foundation for reality? Couldn't an athiest instead be open to, for example, a mathematical foundation from which that which we perceive as being matter emerges? I fail to see any a priori reason for which this could not be the case? Chris On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Kim Jones<kimjo...@ozemail.com.au> wrote: Atheists have no special function or any special beliefs. They are a religion like any other. They believe in God's non-existence, that's all. They reject the notion of an immaterial "prima materia" because that appears to them self-contradictory and instead put a thing called "Matter" on the same pedestal and worship that instead. It's merely a fashionable alternative to the Abrahamic sky-fairy concept but has no particular virtues I am aware of other than that
Kim > On 26 Mar 2017, at 3:11 am, Evgenii Rudnyi <use...@rudnyi.ru> wrote: > > Dominic Johnson > What are atheists for? Hypotheses on the functions of non-belief in the > evolution of religion > Religion, Brain & Behavior > Vol. 2, No. 1, February 2012, 48-99 > > http://dominicdpjohnson.com/publications/pdf/2012JohnsonWhatAreAtheistsFor.pdf > > "An explosion of recent research suggests that religious beliefs and > behaviors are universal, arise from deep-seated cognitive mechanisms, and > were favored by natural selection over human evolutionary history. However, > if a propensity towards religious beliefs is a fundamental characteristic of > human brains (as both by-product theorists and adaptationists agree), and/or > an important ingredient of Darwinian fitness (as adaptationists argue), then > how do we explain the existence > and prevalence of atheists - even among ancient and traditional societies?" > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
