From: Jonathan Reeves (JonathanR@mail.iclshelpdesks.com)
Date: Tue Oct 26 1999 - 06:39:54 MDT
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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