[lbo-talk] The God Delusion

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Sun Oct 22 10:41:04 PDT 2006


Chris Doss wrote:


>Theism and atheism are fundamental metaphysical
>positions, like idealism, materialiam, solipsism and
>so forth. There is no conceivable empirical difference
>between a universe with a god and a universe without
>one, therefore there is nothing to use to jump to the
>"conclusion" that one is more "probable" than the
>other.
>
No. But how people discuss the issue and what they believe "proves" one side or the other is a pretty good sign of cultural progress/decline. Right now, we don't look too good. Neither the left with "religion is idiocy" nor the right with their Pat Robertsons.

Joanna


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