Steve wrote in message <3794651B.29AD at armory.com>...
>Malcolm McMahon wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 18 Jul 1999 21:46:52 -0300, "M. McLeod" <mycloud at chebucto.ns.ca>
>> wrote:
>>>> >I missed that "atheism is a faith" bit the first time I looked. Can't
>> >agree with you there. To have faith it has to be in something and an
>> >atheist believes in nothing.
>>>> Nobody "believes in nothing". Atheist believe in a material universe
>> which is either eternal or arrose through "natural causes" (whatever
>> that means in the context). They believe in Occam's Razor.
>>>> What is a religion? I'd say a set of beliefs about the origins of the
>> universe, who's running the show, what happens when we die. Atheists can
>> make positive statements about all these questions.
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>Sigh! You can say it's a religion if you want, it doesn't matter if it
>is or isn't called something that is an absurdity, except as evidence
>that someone doesn't understand very well.
>>It remains that the best idea is to believe as little as one can get
>away with, since the chances of being quite wrong are so very great.
>Believe in as few things as possible, and then only pro tempore, only
>provisional temporary belief, never permanant beliefs. Remember to
>terminate beliefs immediately after usage for personal motivations.
>-Steve
Believing in as little as possible is the only way to keep an open mind. So
why all the big statements in your response to my earlier post? It seems
you have QUITE a lot of set-in-stone opinions about unproveable things, when
I'm trying to show that you shouldn't. A scientist doesn't believe in
something he cannot prove / disprove.
