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Old 09-22-2007, 10:22 AM
luckyme luckyme is offline
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Default Re: What an atheist is, for Splendour

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would discard evolution in an instant if new fossils and data and analysis showed it to be incorrect. Those things have shown it to be true; thus, I believe it to be the best fitting explanation we have and am sure it will continue to perform well under further scrutiny.

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The general form of this thought is the toughest thing for a theist to grasp, actually perhaps not possible to grasp as a theist.
The concept of essentially not holding any beliefs as fixed and having the rest of reality conform. This provisional position approach, where views are taken as "assumed to be true, so far, by the evidence" and changing them when the evidence leads elsewhere. iow, 'true' is not 'TrVth' but simply a holding pattern.
For a theist, it'd be like being tossed around, lost on an unknown sea.
Descartes assumed too much.

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