Radrook
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The most consistent trend I've seen with respect to atheists, and "blind faith" in the 'unseen' (in the lab), is that as long as the concept has nothing to an intelligent creator, they're all in. They'll put their faith into just about anything, from "dark energy", to multiple additional spacetime dimensions, to unseen particles, just as long as the idea doesn't involve an intelligent creator.
If you tried to suggest that even the first form of life could have been 'intelligently created' and "designed" to thrive in various physical environments, that's typically rejected with prejudice based on a perceived 'lack of evidence'. If however you "assume" it may have begun purely by an unusual arrangement of physical conditions here on Earth, that's typically fine by them, even without a demonstration of concept in the lab.
Most atheists I've met "assume" that 95 percent of the universe is controlled by "unseen" (in the lab) and invisible and "supernatural" forces. The only "supernatural" concept they outright reject, is anything that has to do with an intelligent creator.
It's the only common denominator in terms of their pattern of 'blind faith' that I've seen to date.
It is indeed the common denominator. I once was told outright that it is the common denominator and that any attempt no matter how compelling the evidence or the argument might be would be rejected by default based on that common denominator. That isn't science nor has anything at all to do with being scientific or with the scientific method because the scientific method demands an open unbiased mind and strict objectivity. Such an attitude goes completely contrary to those two basic scientific method requirements.
The scientific method also demands a strict adherence to the principles of cogent reasoning in the formulation of hypothesis leading to theories via the inductive leap which is used to formulate a premise leading to conclusions upon which those theories are based. Atheists glibly cast such a basic requirement aside when convenient by ignoring logic and applying it only when it doesn't lead to a conclusion which they deem unacceptable-the existence of a creator or of a designing mind.
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