Akvod said:
It's not that there's a reason to disbelieve in god, but that there's no reason to believe in god.
Modern Western logic began with Descartes and skepticism. Skepticism has been at the root of our knowledge gaining process ever since then.
Think of the following things:
Scientific method.
Presumed innocent until PROVEN guilty.
Statistic (Null/Alternative hypothesis).
Occam's Razor
The consensus we've had over the past 200 years is that we believe in things, until they are proven. If they aren't we either don't believe in anything, or assume the most simple possibility.
Atheism isn't a BELIEF. It is a LACK of belief. |
Actually, Occam's razor I think would go against atheism oddly enough.
People generally confuse Occam's razor with another principle... i forget what it is.
Occam's Razor suggests that when picking among theories you pick the one with the least amount of new assumptions.
As far as history goes, atheism is relativly new as far as a belief goes. Going back in time, it seems as if all groups had some form or religion or another.
"The spiritual" is really anything but new as far as a field of existence goes.
It's worth noting the creator. William of Occam, who was himself.... a fransician friar.
The creator of this principle said... “only faith gives us access to theological truths. The ways of God are not open to reason, for God has freely chosen to create a world and establish a way of salvation within it apart from any necessary laws that human logic or rationality can uncover.”
If anyone knows how to properly apply Occam's razor... it would be William of Occam.
Occam's razor is a lot like Godwin's law. People mistake Godwin's law as "Whoever mentions hitler or nazis first loses an arguement."
When in reality it's "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."
