Atheism and Naturalism

This is a review of a book sent to me by a long time subscriber and cool guy that tried to explain why naturalism (and therefore atheism) is the preferred world view for people like ourselves. I do recommend the book despite being critical of it. I think that most people (if nothing else) will find it a great source of direction to information if they are looking for it in any facet of the debate between the religious and the naturalist (as he frames it).

The book is available for download at:
http://www.amazon.com/Atheism-Naturalism-Nicholas-Covington/dp/0557070465/ref...

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[TheMessianicManic]

In a book called "Atheism and Naturalism" I expect he makes a case for naturalism as a philosophy. If that's the case does he argue for methodological naturalism, ontological naturalism, or both?

[KingHeathen]

@TheMessianicManic He does, that's the primary motive of the book, and in that process he has to cover the topics I mentioned.

[MistressArte]

The hardest part with religion, tonight I watched the CNN special on Waco and two of the people they were talking to still believe that David Koresh is going to come back for them. The one guy lost his teen daughter and the other woman lost her husband and three teen-young adult kids and becuase they fear what will happen once they see the truth they continue to believe. What you need to get past is a lot of self serving dissonance and fear that all that effort they put into it was for nothing.

[KingHeathen]

@MistressArte That sounds really interesting. I wish I had caught it. I've stopped keeping up with CNN after the 3rd time I caught them fudging on a story, being busted on it, and not owning up to their error. Hopefully this one is on the up and up. For a little bit, I was starting to think that they would turn into another version of Fox. Still, it sounds like an interesting piece.

[glues1]

@theevilgood Well said

[theevilgood]

@glues1 Then allow me to amend my statement. It is not that no one knows the truth, it is simply that we lack the knowledge to identify said truth with definite certainty.

[glues1]

@theevilgood The only way to claim that nobody knows the truth would be if you already had known the truth. Draw that out to its conclusion, and your forced to make the statement that there's no such thing as absolute truth. But that statement in itself would have to be "absolutely true."

[Luigi84289]

@campowt What? I've never seen a religious person argue to a God. They all take that a God exists on faith and try to point out holes in knowledge, or their scripture to prove it.

[KesslersCross]

JOHN BOY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[redflame29]

I still haven't got my do do award. I even built a shelf for them. Btw did you ever figure out that code i showed you? I am still waiting for you to show people how smart u are. by solving the code.

[theevilgood]

The idea that Atheism is fact does, and always will, take belief. It is not a truth that there is no God, nor is it a truth that there is one. The only truth is that nobodies knows the truth about God. I highly suggest that any Atheist and any Creationist go out and research many of the alternative possibilities. From Paganism to Buddhism to Atheism, etc. If you remain steadfast in your faith, then you are truly what you claim to be.

[campowt]

Classic examples of arguing from - rather than to - a conclusion. Typical Atheists.

[EyeLean5280]

@swinnbar - there's a lot to admire about the Jehovah's Witnesses. They were the only group in the holocaust who could have walked out of the concentration camps at any time, if they would just sign oaths to Hitler. Almost none made that choice.

These days, they are very environmentally minded, and have been so since before it was hip.

I like them.

[Wikipunani]

@TheMessianicManic Stale thought all these years later.

Its Materialism vs Materialism+

Materialism is a constrictive filter through which to view all raw data. All other paradigms which expand upon it free the human mind.

"If my stone knives and bear skins-du-jour cannot measure it, it is nonfactor! And I'm taking my ball and going home too dammit!" A pubescent, emotional philosophy worshiping sapient perception.

Tragic was the day Science chose to limit itself to this paradigm.