The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #147391   Message #3441060
Posted By: Steve Shaw
23-Nov-12 - 02:00 PM
Thread Name: BS: Alternative to Science??
Subject: RE: BS: Alternative to Science??
No, because I don't "not believe in" God. By attempting to make me declare such a negative, believers are trying to put me firmly in their territory. Not only do I not want to be there, it would be intellectually dishonest for me to be there. So I never say "I don't believe in God." I just say that I look at evidence, and, from what I can see, there is only a very remote possibility indeed that God exists. God is used as the explanation for all things created, yet the explanation is infinitely more complex and infinitely more inexplicable than the things it's supposed to explain.

When I use the term "God", I mean it in any sense that believers care to put forward, and those senses appear to be manifold. Either I get a plausible explanation for God that fits the laws of nature, and that I can pursue evidence for, or I get good, solid evidence for his existence. Otherwise I can think of far more interesting chaps, such as the ones I'm having some chunes with tonight.