tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post6910673190014426275..comments2023-09-25T04:26:51.568-06:00Comments on The Barefoot Bum: Atheism and "intellectual procrastination"Larry Hamelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08788697573946266404noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-75900834788270073742010-07-26T21:57:08.511-06:002010-07-26T21:57:08.511-06:00"We are certain some element or elements of a..."We are certain some element or elements of a theory — a set of statements about the world — are false if the theory entails false statements about observation."<br /><br />There cannot be any "true" statement about reality once one rejects the concept that truth can transcends the empirical world. You are correct that there are as many models of truth and reality as there are religions--more, even. This is a debate for the respective adherents to those models. But to reject any truth that is not empirically observable is to cut oneself off at the knees. At the very least, atheists must posit that objects in the world have causal relationships with one another, that the future will resemble the past, and so on. Religion is simply an organized, systematic way to organize these transcendental truths. <br /><br />Atheists certainly don't reject causation and induction, but they don't give an account for how they can know it. They simply refuse to acknowledge the transcendental truths they rely upon. This is disingenuous.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-45304114927967362902010-07-25T13:39:37.848-06:002010-07-25T13:39:37.848-06:00My inability to explain something has fuck-all to ...My inability to explain something has fuck-all to do with whether I am capable of determining whether your explanation of that same thing is full of fucken shit.Comrade PhysioProfhttp://physioprof.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-83097729570027117682010-07-25T11:42:39.185-06:002010-07-25T11:42:39.185-06:00The problem with religion is not that it fails to ...The problem with religion is not that it fails to provide explanations. The problem is that religion provides too many explanations. We want one explanation, we want to know that that particular explanation really is correct, and we want to know it's correct even if it contradicts what we happen to believe.<br /><br />This was very well said! Bravo!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13969144197524502642noreply@blogger.com