Belief- Protecting new posts (Evolution)

by romansh , Sunday, January 09, 2011, 18:27 (5065 days ago) @ David Turell

I've only skimmed through the posts - so apologies.-I think Balanced is quite right to complain about people asking for proof for a religion, god or universal intelligence. Scientists do themselves a disservice if they use the word "proof" in a sentence, unless it immediately preceded by the word "no".-Now while the concept of a universal intelligence does not makes sense and poses more questions than answers, but then I suppose all hypotheses do that. Anyway as an agnostic, it does not make sense for me not to know and then go around believing stuff. That's why we have Electric Monks.-Having said that people are quite entitled to ask for evidence and the reasoning used to come to any particular belief. If for no other reason to see if it is rational to adopt the said belief.-The comment we know the that radios etc had creators, shows the dangers in moving away from agosticism. For example if "Free Will" turns out to be false, then the concept of independent creators of radios etc falls away.