[extropy-chat] Atheism in Decline

[scerir]

> Everybody knows the world is balanced on 
> the back of a giant tortoise.

> Unless i am an asantaclausarian.[...]

> I don't believe in trees.

> My friend is a dyslexic atheist. 
> He does not believe there is a dog.

According to John Duns Scotus (Eriugena) 
God is 'nothing'. God is 'nihil per excellentiam' 
(many like 'nihil per infinitatem'). 

So ... if you believe in nothing ...

Btw, I strongly believe that John Duns Scotus was a
proto cosmologist, knowing everything about the quantum 
fluctuations of the primordial vacuum/nihil, containing
everything else, at least potentially. As J.L. Borges
pointed out many times, it rests to be seen whether
that nihil/nothing is much better than something :-)

s.

"The reason that there is Something 
rather than Nothing 
is that Nothing is unstable."
- Frank Wilczek