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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This is a perfect example of why our children aren't Catholic. They know enough about anthropology to realize that there never was a time that humans were in some sort of state of grace from which they fell through disobedience of a diety. I feel sorry for those who still believe such nonsense.
If anything, in Brazil, it is the Catholics who are Cain- quickly burning down the rainforest to make pastureland for more beef production, just as Cain killed Abel to gain more room for his fields. Haven't you ever noticed that Cain is the archetype of the farmer, and Abel the archetype of the primitive hunter-gatherer?