Re: What is SCIENCE?

Dan Still <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Brian Henderson wrote...
:> 
:> In other words, you have no evidence.  Thanks.

: No, actually, I do.  What I believe is based upon evidence.  I realize
: it sounds like a cop out not to produce it.  But it's not what I'm
: actually interested in talking about.

:> Because everyone is born an atheist.  Atheism is the LACK of belief in
:> god(s).  Since no one pops out of the womb believing in a god, atheism
:> is the default state.  It isn't that hard.

: I disagree.

Then, (offense intended) you are an idiot.  People pop out of the
womb not even knowing how to talk yet, and yet you say they believe
in a god before they even understand how to say "mama".

: People groups everywhere for all time have had some kind
: of belief in god(s).  I think it implausible that all those beliefs
: came from someone who got the next person to believe who got the next
: person to believe who eventually got all cultures to believe.

Do you also have trouble believing that so many people learn language
at that age in that very same way?

: I think
: it more plausible that people have a natural sense of something bigger
: than what we see around us.  There is too much grandeur, too much
: order, too much around us that obviously points to god(s).

: Dan