tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post5921424828732660829..comments2024-03-18T06:17:20.604-07:00Comments on The Scratching Post: Atheism Is Wish FulfillmentK T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-87109378109316224922013-08-08T05:06:55.640-07:002013-08-08T05:06:55.640-07:00"If any of you can figure out where they'..."<i>If any of you can figure out where they're going with that nonsense, let me know.</i>"<br /><br />From experience, I expect something like this -- "<i>I, being all scientistical, and all, don't have/believe Big-T Truths, like you do (you poor sap). All '</i>Science!<i>' can offer are small-t 'truths' (which are, of course, subject to change) ... THEREFORE, my position (and I, myself) is intellectually (and morally) superior to your position (and to you)</i>"IlĂonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-62107838927887957042013-08-07T21:02:43.509-07:002013-08-07T21:02:43.509-07:00B-Daddy, thanks for the kind words. My friend on T...B-Daddy, thanks for the kind words. My friend on Twitter tried the subatomic uncertainty angle. The problem with that is it results in animism. Everything has subatomic particles, so everything is similarly self-aware.K T Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-63261277077071647892013-08-06T19:54:29.895-07:002013-08-06T19:54:29.895-07:00KT, admirable stuff. I don't know where they ...KT, admirable stuff. I don't know where they are going either, because chemists and physicists always attempt to describe their theories with mathematics. Chemistry, physics and mathematics are attempts to describe the world with manipulable symbology in the hopes that new insight will be revealed, which often happens. However, new insight that ascribes meaning to human existence can not arise from such disciplines.<br /><br />With respect to your atheist friends, they did not use the more sophisticate argument that free will is an illusion that arises because at the atomic level precise prediction of outcome is not deterministic. The result is that we appear to be choosing outcomes based on our actions, as in the Schrodinger cat experiment. The quantum mechanical theory is that solutions "coalesce" due to the act of observation. While that seems ridiculous, the alternate multiverse explanation also seems ridiculous. While I do not ascribe to a theory that there is no free will, it is more defensible. B-Daddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13880092017105841256noreply@blogger.com