Corgan Sow

Koyaanisqatsi, thanks for your reply. Indeed, if you reply would have been in this manner, instead of the manner of the first post, I wouldn't be a bit harsh on you. Blame it on my emotions then... <img src="graemlins/banghead.gif" border="0" alt="[Bang Head]" />

However, there are some points I would like to refute;

The characteristic aspects of atheism and theist are two totally different sides, in my opinion. Atheism requires confirmation based by logic and within laws of their creation; based on science. Theists usually confirm themselves based on faith and unexplanable phenomenon (kind to explain what is operant conditioning?). My belief is that theists uses their own judgment to confirm things rather by the laws of the world. These beliefs came mostly from supernatural phenomenon, which is unexplanable by science and even defies logic. If by all means after much analysis and research made on it do not reach an end of confirmation, he/she do not have a choice, but to leave it just that.

However, that particular verdict made on unexplanable phenomenon cannot be preached, as miracles actually happens to a selective group or individual. Collective miracles happen to only a very large group, and the rest usually disputes it, because the rest do not experience it. Yet, it is very harsh to label these individual or groups, as liars or deluded beings, as they cannot prove AND dispute their verdict based on their experiences.

There are also a group of theists who made verdict of their beliefs based on science. However, all of them have individual means of research, and not all collective.

Santa might be a fairy tale, but can you blame kids who actually witnessed tiny fairies just barely the size of a palm, giving them a 100 dollar note? Or a person who experienced his best friend murdered by a spectral figure?

Theism is based on faith, yes. But to not be biased, you have to refute their faith in their own grounds. I say atheism is biased because they argue on their own grounds, as usual, science and logic.

I might sound silly here, but between theists and atheists, no one is not biased.

Well to continue arguing is untenable in my grounds.

Jobar

Corgan, check out our Biblical Criticism forum- it's my opinion that Christianity is internally inconsistent as well as inconsistent with scientific facts. That's one of the reasons I call myself an atheist when talking about the Christian or Abrahamic God- there is no self-consistent way to identify Him.