Comments on: The Miracles of Nature

By: Capt.Joe Data Kickass

Capt.Joe Data Kickass — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:32:00 +0000

Logic is not required to disbelieve in a personal god, however the suspension of logic is required to fully believe in a personal god.

By: Intergalactic Hussy

Intergalactic Hussy — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:19:00 +0000

I don’t “worship” logic. I believe in logic and intuition. I belive in all good things.

I must correct you, religion is what causes evil. If you don’t see that, I pity you.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:11:00 +0000

Dear intergalactic, you have listed both “logic” and “love” as the values that you believe in. There is contradiction though. Logic suppresses idealism, intuition, creativity, love and anything else what is “good”. You seem to think that science is logical… No way. Scientific progress has always emerged from intuition and “enlightenment” that are highly “illogical”. It seems that all “atheists” are confused by this, as they don’t understand what logic is. Aristotle defined it as the art of tautology, as logic doesn’t create anything except emotions. It is intuition (i.e. right brain) that creates anything beyond emotions. When you start worshiping logic (i.e., become left-brained), you suppress your intuition, thus becoming ready to accept any immoralities simply because they are “well-reasoned”. In the meantime, for every reason there are dozens of “anti-reasons” which you don’t see, because your intuition is suppressed. This is how all evil things are started. To become evil, simply worship logic! Isn’t logic a God of all atheists?

By: Intergalactic Hussy

Intergalactic Hussy — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 20:51:00 +0000

You apparently have missed the point of everything I say. That morals don’t need to come from religion. Everyone should just live happily and not worry about what other’s say. Ethics are important but they don’t come from religion. Having ethics is a good quality; how can it not be? I’m sorry if you think I come off like I know everything. How can I know everything out there? I just write what how I feel about a subject and from scientific data.

I can’t answer any of your other questions, being that they don’t make sense and do not correspond correctly to anything I have ever said.

By: Taylor

Taylor — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 20:39:00 +0000

When I read through some of the things you write, I feel like you're on the cusp of true understanding. Your stance on "the miracles of life" is exactly right--nothing in the universe happens that breaks the natural order (no matter how unlikely an event may have been). Everything happens within the confines of the natural world, and the only parameters are the laws of the natural world (whether known or unknown).

The problem I have with the majority of what you write comes to this. With the defeatist attitude that you so prominently display, why do you go against yourself and believe in something like humanism? Another way for me to ask this is as follows... If everything really is just happenstance, and there is no divine plan or intervention, why do you posit that equality, morals, ethics, freedom, and caring are all good things? If all we have in the universe is chance, what force is there that makes things like equality, justice, and caring for others *good* things? Why would an empty universe prefer equality to privelege? Why would a world of happenstance prefer truth over deception? What driving force is there that prefers safety to suffering?

What you believe about the universe and what you believe about purpose, goodness and humanity are non sequitur. I think if you studied a little philosophy of language, it might help you understand how religion interacts within itself, and how the lexicon (both literal and figurative) of any system of beliefs should not and can not be transferred within different systems of belief.

I like to see someone with a brain out there, but Christ, you sure do seem to think that you've got it all figured out.