Tag: ask an atheist

As "absolutism" is not an entity, I have no "personal relationship" to it at all, just as I can have no "personal relationship" with the mathematical absolute that one plus one equals two and not 64

Q. Setting aside intensity of persecution, do you think you would be an atheist if you lived 300 years ago? Do you feel you could sustain contentment without today’s scientific cosmological understanding?

The questioner appears also to be assuming that I am a "no possible evidence could persuade me" atheist, and there too I must beg to differ.

Us humans do indeed have minds, and they are the result of what our little meat computers do day to day. The current neurobiological and behavioral evidence establishes that much of what we do in our mindful activity involves natural processes that are shared deeply in our non-human evolutionary cousins, most especially among the higher primates

The problem with philosophical arguments in the god department is that they involve historical subjects for which no direct evidence is available and/or involve intrinsically undecidable propositions.