Negative atheism? (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, December 24, 2014, 23:53 (3621 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: How can it be illogical when you yourself concede that an eternal God is unlikely to have twiddled his divine thumbs, doing nothing for ever and ever until approx. 14 billion years ago? -We do not know if we are the first universe or one that follows several or many. Judging by this universe one lasts about 100 billion years. We have no idea if God waited for an eternity to produce just this one. Speculation does not advance the discussion, because, bluntly, we have no idea what we are talking about. I feel we can only use what we know. That is the kind of evidence I've used to make up my mind.-> dhw: We are dealing with an unknown process. ... I am prepared to consider other hypotheses, but unlike you, I do not believe in any of them, following the logic I use, and so I keep an open mind.-And I will keep filling it with factual material.
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> dhw: I have indeed followed all the other facts and observations, have enormous respect for your learning and your arguments, and neither reject nor accept your conclusions. All of this constitutes the whole substance of our forum, and every single fact and observation that you use to come to your conclusions has at one time or another been the subject of our discussions. Long may these continue.-Yes, for many more Christmases.