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Thread #100330   Message #2010966
Posted By: Amos
29-Mar-07 - 03:02 PM
Thread Name: BS: New things about atheism
Subject: RE: BS: New things about atheism
Atheists can only induce a limited amount of evidence to support the notion that there certainly is not any infinite spiritual force. Typically the scope of such evidence is limited to space-time and things of energy and matter, and further constrained by those matters and energies he has found data on first- or second-hand. However, he must take (a) the rest of all the physical universe and (b) any other universe or continuum and extend the concept of no-God on faith that these principles will scale appropriately.

This is very different than asserting little leprechauns on Earth do not exist because (a) their realm of attribution is purely Earthian and (b) they are postulated entities within corporeal existence and therefore MORE LIKELY to not exist by the known patterns of material existence and probability.

However the various forms of "godness" include, among others, having NO material form, and being "not of space or energy". It is therefore much more a matter of faith to assume that the evidential trends of local space and time will extend into those realms. (If indeed such realms exist, which cannot be estimated based on local knowledge of the physical nature of this continuum for obvious reasons).

The possibility of a third dimension cannot be excluded on the basis of two-dimensional experience (see "Flatland").

However, a good survey of two dimensional space-time can lead one to assessing with a good probability that while many dots exist, small green ones do not.

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