http://oneandfour.org/archives/2006/02/mere_christiani.html Alex's Blog Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:00:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 http://oneandfour.org/archives/2006/02/mere_christiani.html#comment-420 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://oneandfour.org/archives/2006/02/mere_christiani.html#comment-420 "Consequently atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning" Atheism <strong>from that particular argument<strong> is too simple. That doesn't mean that it's too simple if you're using some other argument. And, if the universe as a whole has no meaning, but individual parts of it do, then we would be able to recognize the fact that the whole thing has no meaning. Like, the human race as a whole doesn't have a self-recognized purpose in existing (the whole world doesn't wake up and say, "What is our purpose for existence today") but individual people may have purposes in life.</strong></strong> “Consequently atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning”
Atheism from that particular argument is too simple. That doesn’t mean that it’s too simple if you’re using some other argument.
And, if the universe as a whole has no meaning, but individual parts of it do, then we would be able to recognize the fact that the whole thing has no meaning. Like, the human race as a whole doesn’t have a self-recognized purpose in existing (the whole world doesn’t wake up and say, “What is our purpose for existence today”) but individual people may have purposes in life.

]]> http://oneandfour.org/archives/2006/02/mere_christiani.html#comment-419 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://oneandfour.org/archives/2006/02/mere_christiani.html#comment-419 Neat. Yeah, I'd heard of that book. Haven't read it, but it sounds great. Neat. Yeah, I’d heard of that book. Haven’t read it, but it sounds great.

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