From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Mon Dec 21 1998 - 23:03:33 MST
> Christophe Delriviere wrote: I'm not sure, but i think there is a majority
> of atheists in this list... could you call it open minded?
not necessarily. openmindedness is partially an expression of congnitive
dissonance. on the topic of religion, i am an atheist. i have no cognitive
dissonance, consequently, i tend towards closed mindedness on that topic.
> What if somebody bring you a good scientific paper wich is a proof of the
> existence of god ? What will you do ?
um... pray to that author? i may have moved right from fundamentalist
to atheist on over to agnostic, i dont know.
the agnostic acknowledges a possibility of an unknown god, which is
tempting to me more these days. consider: what if another society
elsewhere and elsewhen develops strong ai and nanotech, and makes
itself into a jupiter brain, or whatever. (see what i learn from you
guys? {8^D ) i have no reason to exclude the possibility that such
a "god" has evolved somewhere and it hasnt found us yet. perhaps it
is outside our light cone. spike
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