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thepossibilities wrote:
> Immortalist wrote:
<snip topic data on universal sceptisism>
> > Atheism: The Case Against God
> > George H. Smith
> > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/087975124X/
>
> i found this quote in one of the review's interesting.
>
> "ATHEISM IS NOT A PROOF THAT GOD DOES NOT EXIST. INSTEAD IT IS THE
> ASSERTION THAT THEISM DOES NOT PROVIDE AN ADEQUATE PROOF OF THE
> EXISTENCE OF GOD"
>
> This is were faith fills the gap.
The idea of certain knowledge may be unattainable is not proof that it
does not exist, instead rationalism, or the idea that certain knowledge
is attainable, does not provide an adequate proof of the existen of
certain knowledge.
This is where faith in the possibility of certain knowledge fills the
gap.
(1) It is possible that the certain knowledge exists and it is possible
that the certain knowledge does not exist.
(2) If one believes in certain knowledge then if it exists then one
receives truth and if he does not exist then one loses little or
nothing but faith in certain knowledge.
(3) If one does not believe in certain knowledge then if it exists then
one receives falsehood and if he does not exist then one gains little
or nothing but the lack of faith in certain knowledge.
(4) It is better to either receive truth or lose little or nothing than
it is to either receive falsehood and gain little or nothing.
Therefore:
(5) It is better to believe in certain knowledge than it is to
disbelieve in certain knowledge.
www.philosophyofreligion.info/pascalswager.html">http://www.philosophyofreligion.info/pascalswager.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_Wager
www.google.com/search?q=religious+wager">http://www.google.com/search?q=religious+wager
A new theory of cognitive biases, called error management theory (EMT),
proposes that psychological mechanisms are designed to be predictably
biased when the costs of false-positive and false-negative errors were
asymmetrical over evolutionary history. This theory explains known
phenomena such as men's overperception of women's sexual intent, and it
predicts new biases in social inference such as women's underestimation
of men's commitment.
www.psychologicalscience.org/media/releases/2002/pr020103.cfm">http://www.psychologicalscience.org/media/releases/2002/pr020103.cfm
groups.google.com/group/alt.philosophy/msg/c3b191817059de33">http://groups.google.com/group/alt.philosophy/msg/c3b191817059de33
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