Tuesday, December 30, 2008

To Atheists:

Places like this exist because of the threat we pose to them, despite being wrong via incompleteness, and their inability to articulate their comprehension of that threat in the language we understand.

This is true of both sides.

Only our greatest minds can see the gap, and bridge it.

Atheists are as resistant to the idea of their vision being incomplete as theists are to the idea of their vision being incorrect.

We both must finally see past our own limitations.

You know how theists exacerbate the issue, but the rest of you seem blind to the flip side.

Atheists make it worse by acting so certain of the conclusions derived from observation and experimentation. Why such confidence? With only one universe, who's to say the physical rules wont change in the next 20 seconds nullifying the whole of science's data set? You have faith that this will not occur. Past stability is not evidence, correlation does not denote causation.

What happens when there is a question that cannot be answered?

Sure science gives us great control over the physical world, but the great questions remain. Whence comes logic? Why can't we have a square circle?

Science can only explain the physical rules by which existence operates, it cannot explain why those rules are as they are or most importantly why they are, at all.

Not why as in purpose, that's too personal, not why as in origin, that's too linear.

But. Raw. Simple. Why?

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstein

"Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?" - Stephen Hawking

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" - Abraham Lincoln

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