> On 28 May 2019, at 19:21, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 2:40 PM Jason Resch <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > >> Scientists never decree that something does not exist, > > > Then is atheism not a scientific view? > > Isaac Asimov said it best: > > "I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an > atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually > unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that > one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or an > agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of > reason. Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that > God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to > waste my time." > > Among many other things Asimov was a biblical scholar, he even wrote a 1296 > page tome on it that is still in print called Asimov's Guide To The Bible. He > concluded that: > > "Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever > conceived.”
I agree with Isamov. But the theology and God he is using is the one on which we have been brainwashed since long. It is not the concept studied at the time theology was done with the scientific (modest) attitude. Anyone saying that “God does not exist” usually take for granted the second God of Aristotle, that the christians called creation. Once we find Mechanism plausible, number’s prestidigitalism is a far simpler explanation of why there is a universe than the idea of a creator or creation. In the Aristotelian frame work, Mechanism is super-atheist: no creator, no creation. But in the Platonist frame work, theology comes from the insight that we cannot prove the existence of a reality, and so if we want to pursue fundamental research, there is an understanding that an act of faith is needed, be it on the first God, the second God (Matter) or the consistency of arithmetic. Bruno > > John K Clark > > > -- > 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 [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0uEB2KsA4JjSNBb32ye9F6bXyuYVk%2BuASWQJsN5xVfMg%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0uEB2KsA4JjSNBb32ye9F6bXyuYVk%2BuASWQJsN5xVfMg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/15A3182E-4AE0-43AD-85FF-FA7D1A28B990%40ulb.ac.be.
