[lbo-talk] A time of doubt for atheists

[Mycos]

Michael Pugliese wrote:
>   http://www.secweb.org/asset.asp?AssetID=387
> The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern
> World by Alestair McGrath, a former atheist. 

I'm sorry, but this "former atheist" thing.... I mean, how does one 
go from the rational to the irrational and then contend that they 
are still thinking rationally about the subject? How does one go 
from believing in the scientific, natural explanation of a universe, 

  one where there is an acceptance of the fact that we don't know 
all, an acceptance that what we think we do know as fact can also be 
subject to change.....to an acceptance of the supernatural as an 
explanation of the universe!??!

  Quite frankly, in my opinion anybody who says they were a former 
atheist was, in truth, at best an agnostic. You simply don't go from 
reading a book, say...Rousseau's "Encyclopedia of Mythology" one day 
to suddenly picking one out of the pack and deciding this or that 
one is in fact the truth. It's simply not done.
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