Negative atheism? (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, January 01, 2015, 00:01 (3614 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: However, I do have the concrete example of zillions of pieces of organic matter, each with its own individual form of consciousness or intelligence, which makes the concept of multiple evolving intelligences easier to “imagine” than that of a single mind capable of creating universes and microbes.-Can you tell me how the zillions appeared? Your answer will be that life started rather quickly after the Earth formed and cooled, surprisingly within a universe that also seems to have appeared out of nothing. And then those microbes, for some unknown reason decided to overcome being unicellular and suddenly developed complex multicellularity from simple precursors about 540 million years ago. Your answer above answers nothing. I guess 'multiple evolving intelligences' created so much conglomerate intelligence they did it all by themselves. There is either chance or guided development, no other possibility exists.-> 
> dhw: Nor is there anything wrong with neutrality. I was merely pointing out that your faith is no different from that of the atheists in its irrational choice of explanations. I just wish both sides would acknowledge the flaws in their respective arguments instead of denigrating one another. Blessed are the agnostic peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of reason. -Nothing wrong with neutrality. But Agnostics lack the willingness to reason to the best solution to the question.