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Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake. If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.
absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
You're right, Sagan was a idyit/
Absence of evidence IS evidence of absence.
LOL... Not if you don't get allegory your not a thinking atheist.
Originally posted by awake_and_aware
reply to post by HunkaHunka
LOL... Not if you don't get allegory your not a thinking atheist.
Explain how that's funny, and explain which allegory atheists misunderstand.
Thanks.
You're right, Sagan was a idyit.
Originally posted by autowrench
reply to post by NOTurTypical
You're right, Sagan was a idyit.
Excuse me? Ever read "Pale Blue Marble?" Or "The Gods of Eden?" Read those and then tell me the man is an idiot. Perhaps your mind cannot understand what he says?
Carl Sagan is one of the best writers I have ever read.
Atheism is demonised because it makes no since to say something that could be a lie
Humans do not liked to be lied to and this would be the same reason why religion is demonised because they say things that could be lies.
It does not matter what proof you can make up for or aginst gods the fact that niether side can prove the exsitence of gods either way makes both side demonised against each other, while the other groups look with wonder.
Why are people limited in believing what others have told them?
Why can they not form their own thoughts and take what they want from both sides and come up with their own religion?
What makes atheist so afraid of religion?