The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #132437   Message #3012048
Posted By: Steve Shaw
21-Oct-10 - 05:53 AM
Thread Name: BS: True Test of an Atheist
Subject: RE: BS: True Test of an Atheist
"This universe was made for us--all conscious things."

Hard to see how this squares with your alleged atheism.

As for your claim that consciousness survives the death of the physical body, you have no evidence for that. It's an interesting speculation all right, but the burden is on you to produce evidence, not for others like me, who think you're totally wrong, to disprove it. Note that I don't ask you to prove it - I ask you for evidence. And I'd rather not rely on your thought experiments.

"I think the eternal dirt nap is the pinnacle of conceit. 'I've lived my life and now it's all over and I get my eternal rest'"

Whatever this means it doesn't apply to me. All I said was that once I croak I'm more than happy for that to be that (OK, I can't be happy as such once I have croaked, but let's just say that the prospect makes me happy). I won't be resting because I won't *be*. Whether anything will be eternal, well, I'd better go and read my Einstein I suppose.