[extropy-chat] Atheism in Decline

[Diego Caleiro]

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Where did you get this Frank Wilczec phrase from?? 
I have some texts in development that would really become more complete if I 
read someone who tought that....




Em Segunda 07 Março 2005 04:47, scerir escreveu:
> > 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
>
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