To: longnshort who wrote (27308 ) 6/17/2012 12:22:40 PM From: Solon 1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) | Respond to "please show me where science has proven there isn't a god" That is not a requirement in order to know that there is no rational support for a belief in god! There are infinite numbers of imaginary (and completely irrational) propositions which science cannot disprove simply because they ARE imaginary and irrational and therefore beyond the concern or province of Science or Reason. --irrespective of the fact that you can supply no Science or Reason for your belief! It is however sufficient to convince me that Asimov was quite correct when he said that "to surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today." "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." And I cannot disprove any of those things! You may continue to believe in any or all of those things. But I am gaining nothing from this discussion. Bye!
