Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!whuxle!spuxll!abnjh!u1100a!pyuxn!rlr From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Is Atheism a religion? - (leaps of faith) Message-ID: <513@pyuxn.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 12:37:18 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxn.513 Posted: Mon Mar 19 12:37:18 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Mar-84 06:01:28 EST References: <6247@uiucdcs.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 16 Which is the leap of faith? Believing in that which has been demonstrably proven or believing that you have knowledge of things that exist beyond that which is understood. To say "Ahh, but you don't know if nothing exists beyond that which we understand, therefore it is YOU who is making the leap of faith" has got to be one of the most vacuous, emptyheaded statements I've ever seen (and I've seen a few--having made some of them myself). Let's put the burden of proof where it rightly belongs. Scientific thought has a model of the physical world. Others claim the truthfulness of another model. Which one would a rational mind choose? The one with the greatest evidence, I would think. To misquote a famous politician and an infamous TV commercial (or is it the other way around?): Where's the deity?? -- Never ASSUME, because when you ASSUME, you make an ASS out of U and ME... Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr