RE: Clint & Robert on "Faith in Science"

Jonathan Reeves (JonathanR@mail.iclshelpdesks.com)
Tue, 26 Oct 1999 13:39:54 +0100

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Wonderful post Emlyn,

I'm always looking for more ways to try and describe the irrelevance of God to people

Jon
Devout Aetheist

> Why then would the purely rational choose atheism? The purely rational would
> mark the question of the existence of God as an unanswerable and unnecessary
> question. You cannot know if there is a God, and you don't need to know this
> to understand the universe. If God's behaviour (effecting the universe) can 

> be modeled, then His behavior assumes the status of natural law. If God's
> behaviour cannot be fully modeled, then we'll never know, because we can
> only assume that our models are invalid, and that we are missing
> information. Either way, we have no rational way to choose either option
> (God or Not God), and cannot make anything useful of such information even
> if we have it.
> 
> To choose Atheism then is to choose a belief. It is based on aesthetics;
on
> a feeling about how the universe works, and on nothing else. Like any system 
> of belief. 
>
> Emlyn
> Godless, and loving it.

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RE: Clint & Robert on "Faith in Science"

Wonderful post Emlyn,

I'm always looking for more ways to try and describe the irrelevance of God to people

Jon
Devout Aetheist


> Why then would the purely rational choose atheism? The purely rational would
> mark the question of the existence of God as an unanswerable and unnecessary
> question. You cannot know if there is a God, and you don't need to know this
> to understand the universe. If God's behaviour (effecting the universe) can
> be modeled, then His behavior assumes the status of natural law. If God's
> behaviour cannot be fully modeled, then we'll never know, because we can
> only assume that our models are invalid, and that we are missing
> information. Either way, we have no rational way to choose either option
> (God or Not God), and cannot make anything useful of such information even
> if we have it.
>
> To choose Atheism then is to choose a belief. It is based on aesthetics; on
> a feeling about how the universe works, and on nothing else. Like any system
> of belief.
>
> Emlyn
> Godless, and loving it.