Re: Religion & Counter-Revolution

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> For the record, I believe atheism to be a spiritual belief.  It's not
> particularly scientific.  A scientific approach would be agnosticism not
> atheism


George: i think the point here is that scientists should admit that they
don't know if suppernatural forces exist and not just deny their existence.

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CB: Why should they ? The normal procedure is not to list all the things that 
you
don't know if they exist or not. The burden of proof is on those who claim
supernatural forces exist to produce the evidence. Otherwise, just like 
anything else
of which no evidence has been adduced, scientists presume that it doesn't 
exist. Why
not pink elephants , unicorns , gnomes ? Must scientists admit that they don't 
know if
these exist ? Of course , not. Similarly, with supernatural forces.




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> CB: Why do you say that ? My presumption is that atheism is the scientific
approach. Science is naturalism not supernaturalism. Skepticism is not
synonymous with science.
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