[extropy-chat] Atheism in Decline

Jeff Medina analyticphilosophy at gmail.com
Fri Mar 4 13:16:02 UTC 2005


Mike said:
> > I know that religion is contrary to rational thinking, but I don't
> > think that getting rid of religion is an option. I'd be interested in
> > everyone's opinion in this matter.
> 
> I wouldn't say that. Descartes literally created modern skepticism but
> still was able to rationalize the existence of god from the ground up.
>

And his attempt to do so is nigh universally recognizing as a complete
failure among philosophers, even among Christian philosophers.

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Dirk made a snide comment about kevinfreels having his mind made up
about religion:
Unlike yourself, clearly, eh?



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