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I would agree with you.
Theists tend to base their beliefs on "needs" and "needs" can be blind to reality, because the need will often, be a priority over well evidenced reality.
To me that is the problem with Atheism. Atheists will agree to not believe in God, but then continue to try and figure out reality and not understand why they can't figure it out in a way that brings all of reality together in a way that makes sense to them personally.
What makes you think I (atheists) haven't "figured it out in a way that brings all of reality together in a way that makes sense to" me personally? As a matter of fact, when I accepted the fact I was atheist, things never made more sense than they do now? Just because humans are able of conceiving a certain reality, doesn't make it reality. As an atheist, I can accept what we know, and accept what we don't. You on the other hand, are forced to accept every absurdities on "faith."
You tell me which is the intellectually honest position.
Your question is loaded, with the presumption that we are "built". Try again.As an intellectually honest atheist, can you answer the question as to why we're all built with an inherit need to believe?
Your question is loaded, with the presumption that we are "built". Try again.
No, as evolution, as a term, is simply descriptive, it is not a "cause". It does not build anything.If you believe evolution is true then without evolution you wouldn't exist as a human being. Isn't it then safe to say that evolution built or constructed the necessary components that makes you a human being right now?
Right, but the problem is we can't divorce ourselves from our need to believe in something. It's impossible to live as a human being and not believe in anything. We are built with an inherent need to believe.
No, as evolution, as a term, is simply descriptive, it is not a "cause". It does not build anything.
Try again, as if semantics can poof your god into existence. lol.
What is built in, is the need to figure things out and come up with explanations as to why they are as they are.
Depending on one's individual psyche, this can cause them to latch onto God and or religion as the explanation for everything. Others, have a psyche that leads them down the path of rolling over every rock and seeking more objective verification to achieve explanations.
Sure, but to what end? What if you run out of rocks to roll over? Are you going to go back and roll over the same rocks and expect different results?
Religion tends to make stuff up, because they need to have an answer for everything. Science on the other hand, has no problem saying; we don't know.
You tell me. Have you attended classes in evolutionary biology?Now I'm perplexed. I thought evolution is believed to be the process by which all biological life developed. This process "built" the components that make us human. How else do they teach this concept in schools?
No, 'magic' is what the religionists invoke.Do they say the process of evolution didn't build anything? It's just magic?
To use the term 'evolution' as having 'built' humans [falsely] implies that evolution has targets. It doesn't.Cmon Davian you're being silly.
You tell me. Have you attended classes in evolutionary biology?
Watch the videos I posted. Dr. Dennett answers all your questions.I've learned enough about evolution to realize it is commonly believed to be the process by which all biological life developed. So without the process of evolution, humans would not exist. So the process of evolution made us into humans who have an inherit need to believe in things.
The unanswered question is: why did the process of evolution make us with an inherit need to believe in things? Why aren't we beings that can know everything and not have to believe things? Why did the process of evolution limit us in this particular way that conveniently leaves God as a viable possibility at all times?
I fully expect intelligent high school and college students to ask such questions regarding evolution and God, if they don't then they are submitting themselves to brainwashing.
You never really run out of rocks, or examining the rocks, but assuming you did, you have two choices; make something up, or say; I don't know.
Religion tends to make stuff up, because they need to have an answer for everything. Science on the other hand, has no problem saying; we don't know.
When the police investigate a murder and they have examined all of the evidence and it doesn't point to any suspect, they don't just pin the crime on someone the make up, they say they don't know and keep investigating.
Watch the videos I posted. Dr. Dennett answers all your questions.
The question then is: Why don't we know everything? What is limiting us from knowing everything? Why did the process of evolution make us in such a way that we are limited in our knowledge of reality? Why do we have an inherit need to believe in things and why is God still a viable possibility to believe? Why can we ask questions like this?
It seems obvious that we're meant to ask questions like this.
You tell me. Have you attended classes in evolutionary biology?
That's a "no", then?I've
Not necessarily. The critter that made tentative assumptions about things may have a slight evolutionary advantage over its competition that could not, or not as well. Selection pressure, even slight, favoured those critters. The other ones have fewer offspring, or die out, and lose the chance to become our ancestors.learned enough about evolution to realize it is commonly believed to be the process by which all biological life developed. So without the process of evolution, humans would not exist. So the process of evolution made us into humans who have an inherit need to believe in things.
Evolutionarily speaking, it may have given our ancestors a slight advantage over their competition. It may be the by-product of some other evolved and inherited trait.The unanswered question is: why did the process of evolution make us with an inherit need to believe in things?
How are "gods" a viable possibility? Explain. What is a "god"?Why aren't we beings that can know everything and not have to believe things? Why did the process of evolution limit us in this particular way that conveniently leaves God as a viable possibility at all times?
My childrens' biology class did spend a day or two on creationism, just to go over how it does not comport with science.I fully expect intelligent high school and college students to ask such questions regarding evolution and God,
Do you consider all education that you disagree with to be "brainwashing"?if they don't then they are submitting themselves to brainwashing.
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