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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: Is Atheism a religion? - (leaps of faith)
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Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 12:37:18 EST
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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