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RNA spontaneously forms in laboratory experiment.
zherok:
That kinda sounds like saying Christianity isn't a belief system, but just a whole bunch of sub-sects.
I think you're focusing too much on this impression that atheism is the lack of something. Your inclusion of Nihilism with Atheism is kinda telling in that regard. I don't think believing there isn't a God is the absence you're ascribing to it.
SeventyX7:
I believe there aren't flying pigs. Is that a belief system?
And Christianity's divisions are completely different. They all follow the same book and same basic idea.
Atheism is different, in that the only similarity in followers is that God doesn't exist. For it to be a belief system, per say, shouldn't there be more?
fohfoh:
I really don't want to toss out the religous studies card, so let's just say that atheism is indeed a belief system but religous aspects are a little iffy. This is after all supposed to be about rna and at least somewhere close to the topic of evolution.
AceHigh:
--- Quote from: zherok on May 22, 2009, 02:08:04 AM ---No, at it's core it's a belief that something does not exist. It's very much a position, whereas a lack of belief would be equivalent to not thinking about it. There are weaker forms of atheism and agnosticism that describe those things.
--- End quote ---
Religion: "God exists!" (organized Religion and beliefs)
Atheism: "There is no god!" (conviction and belief)
Agnosticism: Meh... fuck it, I am going home" ;D (lack of belief, "not thinking about it")
fohfoh:
--- Quote from: Dragoon AceHigh on May 22, 2009, 02:25:36 PM ---
--- Quote from: zherok on May 22, 2009, 02:08:04 AM ---No, at it's core it's a belief that something does not exist. It's very much a position, whereas a lack of belief would be equivalent to not thinking about it. There are weaker forms of atheism and agnosticism that describe those things.
--- End quote ---
Religion: "God exists!" (organized Religion and beliefs)
Atheism: "There is no god!" (conviction and belief)
Agnosticism: Meh... fuck it, I am going home" ;D (lack of belief, "not thinking about it")
--- End quote ---
You fail to mention that agnostics (originals) were party animals... They liked having a pint. ;)
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