P.S. In case you are atheist: if you can scientifically prove that Eternal Parad...

mindslight · on Nov 30, 2008

Sorry, science doesn't work that way. It's your job to give evidence that some sort of afterlife exists.

lst · on Dec 2, 2008

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To not believe in afterlife, you explicitly have to not believe it, so even the denying of afterlife is based on a (negative) faith.

Atheists don't seem aware of being their position a simple negative faith response to a positive faith.

mindslight · on Dec 4, 2008

If you're talking about "strong" atheism (asserting that no god exists) then yes, this is an act of faith as well.

But "weak" atheism is merely a rejection of theism. It is not a proposed hypothesis, but a rebuke of unsupported hypotheses.

lst · on Dec 5, 2008

Sorry, but this is already sophistication (in the archaic sense).

All things that happen must have a cause.

Even Big Bang had its Cause. And since the exact definition of God is: "The only one not caused by anything, but simply 'cause' of Itself", there's no escape here...