Comments on: A Letter to an Atheist http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2007/04/a-letter-to-an-atheist/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:02:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: kolabok21 http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2007/04/a-letter-to-an-atheist/#comment-348 kolabok21 Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:37:12 +0000 http://reclaimingthemind.org/devblog/index.php/2007/04/16/a-letter-to-an-atheist/#comment-348 I concurr with your statement, flightful fantasy I conjured up out of nothing!!! Tthough I wonder do you think God will ever define chaos for his creation? I concurr with your statement, flightful fantasy I conjured up out of nothing!!!
Tthough I wonder do you think God will ever
define chaos for his creation?

]]> By: C Michael Patton http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2007/04/a-letter-to-an-atheist/#comment-346 C Michael Patton Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:09:14 +0000 http://reclaimingthemind.org/devblog/index.php/2007/04/16/a-letter-to-an-atheist/#comment-346 Bryant, good question. I would say have at it! But don't present your view as the "best possible explanation", and certainly don't say that it is the most rational choice. I could present a view that the world came into existence 10 minutes ago and we all have pre-programed memories that create the allusion that the past is real. While possible, this certainly would not demand people's belief and could not make a good argument for it based upon any cumulative case evidence. You would be in the same category as the Flat Earth Society. Once again, once chaos is introduced, there is no such concept as rationality, only conventional beliefs. Therefore, no one could make an argument from these so-called other dimensions that supposedly do not abide by the law of causality, because they would be just as chaotic as the current dimension without God. Bryant, good question. I would say have at it! But don’t present your view as the “best possible explanation”, and certainly don’t say that it is the most rational choice.

I could present a view that the world came into existence 10 minutes ago and we all have pre-programed memories that create the allusion that the past is real. While possible, this certainly would not demand people’s belief and could not make a good argument for it based upon any cumulative case evidence. You would be in the same category as the Flat Earth Society.

Once again, once chaos is introduced, there is no such concept as rationality, only conventional beliefs. Therefore, no one could make an argument from these so-called other dimensions that supposedly do not abide by the law of causality, because they would be just as chaotic as the current dimension without God.

]]> By: kolabok21 http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2007/04/a-letter-to-an-atheist/#comment-347 kolabok21 Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:50:52 +0000 http://reclaimingthemind.org/devblog/index.php/2007/04/16/a-letter-to-an-atheist/#comment-347 I wonder how your argument would stack up against Carl Sagan if he were still alive. Some of those guys may or may not be an atheist, but some do present a view that goes beyond the boundaries of what we would call the normal universe, aka 4th dimension, parallel universes, warp tunnels, cosmic string theories and all those star trek kind of things. Ever watch stargate, stargate Atlantis? I I wonder how your argument would stack up against Carl Sagan if he were still alive.
Some of those guys may or may not be an atheist, but some do present a view that goes beyond the boundaries of what we would call the normal universe, aka 4th dimension, parallel universes, warp tunnels, cosmic string theories and all those star trek kind of things. Ever watch stargate, stargate Atlantis?
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