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By: Sensus Divinitatis News

Sensus Divinitatis News — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:22:09 +0000

Re:Atheism…

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By: Parenting and God « Irresistible (Dis)Grace

Parenting and God « Irresistible (Dis)Grace — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:12:40 +0000

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By: The Chief Desire « Churched, Unchurched: Confessions of Grace

The Chief Desire « Churched, Unchurched: Confessions of Grace — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:57:10 +0000

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By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:15:43 +0000

I see the subtle difference but I still believe there is no evidence. I think that’s an argument Ravi Zacharias touched on.

Evidence such as the existence of the universe could also just as easily be evidence of the GSM.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:09:49 +0000

There are lots of things that converted me back from Athiesm but here are a few (again..just my experience).

1. There IS a reason this is all here. I mean, it’s here right? It got here somehow. I finally had to come to grips with the fact that there is *some* reason. Big Bang, string theory, the dreamings of a self God, The Christian God getting busy for 6 days etc. Something.

2. I’ll never know what #1 is. never.

3. There is some pattern that I see in this world. Coincidences here and there, events here and there, alignment of beliefs with occassional facts, as well as some just unexplainable events that happened to me. It was almost like taking a handful of multicolored sand and tossing it on a surface. Up close it looks random but if you back away you see a pattern of relation in those unrelated grains. Once seen I could not “unsee” it.

I stewed and fussed over #3 for probably a decade knowing that it was one of #1 that was the cause and being well aware of #2. Very bothersome.

One day I finally came to the conclussion that I’m never going to know for sure. I’m just going to have to pick a door and walk through it. I know I can always step back from the door at any time but I don’t because I already know what’s here: No answers.

I’m probably the last person to try to convert someone but I’ll just say this: I know you know what I’m talking about. I can’t explain it to you but I also know I don’t have to. If the time comes that this itch becomes unbearable just know that it’s perfectly ok to believe the answer to #1 is God. There will never be proof of it but that’s ok. There will never be proof against it either. You are not a nutbag for believing in the unprovable.

Whatever path you choose I hope that this wonderful life brings you great happiness.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:22:34 +0000

But what is justified belief? The literature is replete with examples of how people’s responses deviate from what is considered normative on reasoning tasks due to information processing biases, and our ability to select good premises and estimate their probability accurately can be distorted by many things, including self-interest. But to what extent do pragmatic and epistemic rationality overlap?

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:34:13 +0000

whistling in the dark

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:58:22 +0000

William James said, “To preach skepticism to us as a duty until “sufficient evidence” for religion be found is tantamount therefore to telling us, when in presence of the religious hypothesis, that to yield to our fear of its being error is wiser and better than to yield to our hope that it may be true. It is not intellect against all passions, then; it is only intellect with one passion laying down its law. And by what, forsooth, is the supreme wisdom of this passion warranted? Dupery for dupery, what proof is there that dupery through hope is so much worse than dupery through fear?”

By: atheism and evangelism… » simply shannon….

atheism and evangelism… » simply shannon…. — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:03:21 +0000

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