[Osx-nutters] The separation of church and state.

[David Cake]

At 1:06 PM -0600 4/12/07, José Trejos wrote:
>"The belief that there is no God" (Webster's)
>Atheism is an irrational fundamentalistic "belief". A scientist can 
>be agnostic but she/he/it can also believe in a creator that created 
>something that works all by itself without its/his/her personal 
>intervention, from my point of view this kind of "believer" can be a
>good scientist, atheists can't.

	So, how would such a universe differ from 
one that merely came into being without such a 
creator? How could we show that this creator 
existed?
	No difference at all?
	Oh.
	*wields Occams Razor*
	*lop*
	* unnecessary entity disposed of*

	Its perfectly rational not to believe in 
anything that is unnecessary to explain all 
observations.

	(I refer to myself as agnostic, but only 
to save explaining that I am agnostic as regards 
some odd philosophical conceptions of 'God', but 
probably count as atheist for the one you are 
thinking of)
	Cheers
		David