Posted by blue on March 04, 1999 at 22:32:31:
In Reply to: I did posted by Xavier on March 04, 1999 at 09:47:05:
: (Xavier)Can you not understand atheism as a lack of any religious belief or god in those simple terms, rather than impose your religious paradigms on it? I still will never understand how a LACK of belief in religion and god BECOMES a religion with an object of worship. You Calvinists are a confusing lot.
Thanks for the compliment, but it is simple observation that no society in recorded history has ever refrained from worshipping a deity or group of deities. It just doesn't happen.
: : Life can certainly create more life. Can non-living matter create life without a living organism? No. An atheist must have faith this is possible, as there is no scientific proof.
: (Xavier) Please study more on abiogenesis.
What's your point?
: (Xavier) What would artificial intelligence be? How do we know that there is no intelligence elsewhere in the universe, in some entity that does not conform to the definitions of life as we now understand it?
Oh, brother!
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