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To: Soliton

>> Offer some evidence that the human mind is incapable of understanding something.

As an atheist, you surely understand the inability to prove a negative ... additionally, you surely understand the impossibility of me explaining something that the human mind cannot comprehend (as I am limited by my own, very human, mind).

You’re the one making the declaration that the human mind is capable of understanding all. According to the Holy Scientific Method — you must prove that assumption.

Scientific atheism rests on the declaration that all assumptions require proof, and that every truth can be proven empirically. The fundamental assumption of this theology, that the human mind is infinitely capable, defies the very “empiricism” and “proof” that atheism supposedly rests upon.

So — you say the mind is infinitely capable of understanding — and I ask for the empirical basis for that assumption.

If you have no empirical basis for that assumption (which you cannot) — your theology rest on faith no less than mine. Your faith is in humanity’s ability to understand infinitely, mine is in something greater, but yours is faith-based nonetheless. It is certainly not empirical.

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57 posted on 07/31/2008 2:14:20 PM PDT by SnakeDoctor (Keep Austin Quarantined ...)
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To: Hemorrhage
As an atheist

Try again. I'm not an atheist.

61 posted on 07/31/2008 2:16:47 PM PDT by Soliton (Investigate, study, learn, then express an opinion)
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