Negative atheism? (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, January 05, 2015, 16:34 (3400 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: I am saying we don't know how it came about - any more than we know how first cause energy could simply “be” intelligent. You might as well say first cause energy just happens to have had consciousness. Lucky old thing.-> dhw: All life appeared against all the odds. I agree with you: I don't see how an inorganic universe can invent a consciousness. Nor do I see how first-cause energy can simply BE conscious. Two equally “impossible” hypotheses. That is a pretty good reason for agnosticism. Paul Davies is also an agnostic. Why do you think that is?-He is protecting his scientific career. From the evidence, all I can see is an intelligent energy as a first cause. It seems required to me.