Pushing God from gap to gap.

[Alex-db]

KUJustin,

Please feel free to explain the 'believers' position, describing your 'God' hypothesis and the evidence that led you to believe it was true.

The above has been tried many times and doesn't hold water with many people who are very very good at thinking logically and evaluating evidence.

I'd suggest that the assumptions about the mindset of believers are usually not incorrect, and I have verified that by asking many believers about there mindset and the extent to which they were willing to examine their own beliefs honestly.

Many atheists are very interested in understanding the believers' perspective. I'd be interested in hearing perspectives on the whole spectrum from real knowledge about the universe, through outdated science and how it was improved, through believers in old-fashioned mythologies to the wonderfully interesting perspectives of delusional schizophrenics.

Nearly always, the interested atheists have more knowledge about religion, from a wider set of sources, than any of the believers I have spoken to.

And many of the schizophrenics will be adamant that you aren't interested in really understanding what their perspective on reality is.