Definitions (Evolution)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Sunday, April 06, 2008, 11:36 (6073 days ago) @ dhw

I'm a bit fed up with being castigated as being an "atheist", when I am a "rationalist empiricist". That is to say I base my beliefs on evidence and logic. My atheistic / agnostic view is a consequence of that approach. - dhw responds to my protest about his use of chance by saying: The golfing tragedy would be described by most of us as an accident, i.e. an event "without any apparent cause, purpose or design". - This misses the point of my argument which was that there are only two points at which chance entered the scenario, namely when the golfer's club contacted the ball, and when the ball contacted the walker. The rest of it was inevitable. - Why am I accused of "having faith in chance" when dhw and the theists also have "faith in chance". Or is part of the agnostic or theist belief that nothing whatsoever happens by chance? That everything is deterministic? That even a toss of the dice is fixed by their God intruding his noodly appendage? - It seems that dhw does have faith in chance, since he describes the golfing tragedy as an "accident".