Begs the question, if the atheist authors read each others’ (or indeed, their own) works, does that shake their belief in themselves?
I can get behind the idea of an alternative viewpoint, like Michael Moore making a wholly left-wing film to balance out right-wing media coverage in the US, but aren’t alternative viewpoints just unshakeable sureities in a world of tenuous uncertainty?
I suppose I’m a practising (and probably preaching) atheist but the certainty thing is not the point. I am certain that I don’t believe but I will not say for certain that god does not exist, cos I don’t know. Whereas your committed believer will also demand that god’s existence is true fact.
Btw – the main problem with all the great comments from people to this exceptional site is that it is now taking me even longer to get out in the real world!
Brian, your self description sounds more like an agnostic than an atheist. I’m an agnostic simply because I cannot/do not know for certain that god(s) exist. The evidence (or lack thereof) so far indicates, to me, that there are no gods. Therefore, I say that I am an agnostic with an atheistic temperament ;-D
I hadn’t heard about the oven before. Charles Babbage went into a blast furnace with, if memory serves, another man and a dog.
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May 29th, 2007 at 7:04 am
…or perhaps tautology!
May 29th, 2007 at 9:27 am
Also quite circular.
May 29th, 2007 at 9:44 am
Didn’t Descartes make a similar claim? And some people still take him seriously.
May 29th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Whaddaya want from a dude who crawled into an oven to come up with the Discourse of the Method? An oven, I tell you! That was the tip-off for me!
May 31st, 2007 at 2:07 am
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June 1st, 2007 at 1:06 am
Begs the question, if the atheist authors read each others’ (or indeed, their own) works, does that shake their belief in themselves?
I can get behind the idea of an alternative viewpoint, like Michael Moore making a wholly left-wing film to balance out right-wing media coverage in the US, but aren’t alternative viewpoints just unshakeable sureities in a world of tenuous uncertainty?
June 1st, 2007 at 11:21 pm
I suppose I’m a practising (and probably preaching) atheist but the certainty thing is not the point. I am certain that I don’t believe but I will not say for certain that god does not exist, cos I don’t know. Whereas your committed believer will also demand that god’s existence is true fact.
Btw – the main problem with all the great comments from people to this exceptional site is that it is now taking me even longer to get out in the real world!
June 10th, 2007 at 3:45 am
Brian, your self description sounds more like an agnostic than an atheist. I’m an agnostic simply because I cannot/do not know for certain that god(s) exist. The evidence (or lack thereof) so far indicates, to me, that there are no gods. Therefore, I say that I am an agnostic with an atheistic temperament ;-D
August 30th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
I hadn’t heard about the oven before. Charles Babbage went into a blast furnace with, if memory serves, another man and a dog.