Fundamentalist Atheism
Strange Notions is a new Disqus site run by Brandon Vogt to try to discuss Rationality and Reason with Athiests. He may well succeed with some, but there is one subset of atheism he will never succeed with. On Richard Dawkin's spectrum of theistic probability , those with a score 6 and above often fall into something I term fundamentalist atheism. Many of them come from fundamentalist Christian backgrounds, if not in their generation, then within three generations of their recent past. Fundamentalist Atheism starts with the assumption that the supernatural doesn't exist and that the natural world is all there is, and runs with it, denying any data to the contrary. I've always been one to consider the natural to be a subset of the supernatural- that is the only real difference between the natural and the supernatural to me is the line of the shared scientific knowledge of mankind. A scientist, therefore, if he is to learn anything new about the universe, needs to have h...
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You wrote this article under the assumption that there is what you call a “Natural Law” that is the same for everyone. It is just a philosophical concept that has been misapplied to condemn things that the Catholic Church is against. It is a fallacy not a real law to be applied universally. If you are looking for a real natural law, try gravity or electromagnetism or any one of the true laws of nature, not a philosophical concept wrongly cited by Catholic moralists.