Ik kwam de volgende text tegen. edit: Let op de definitie van atheïsme volgens deze text: niet het geloof dat er geen god is, maar de stellige overtuiging en uitspraak dat er geen god is. Dit geld dus niet voor iemand die de mogelijkheid van het bestaan van een god nog open laat.
[Atheism] is not saying, "I do not think there is a God." It is not even saying, "I do not believe there is a God." It is affirming the nonexistence of God. It affirms a negative. It affirms the nonexistence of God... anyone with an introductory course in philosophy recognizes that it is a logical contradiction. How can you affirm a negative in the absolute? It would be like me saying to you, "There is no such thing as a white stone with black dots anywhere in all of the galaxies of this universe." The only way I can affirm that is if I have unlimited knowledge of this universe. So, to affirm an absolute negative is self-defeating because what you are saying is, "I have infinite knowledge in order to say to you, 'There is nobody with infinite knowledge.'" ("Why I am Not an Atheist, Part one," Let My People Think)
The only way to affirm the nonexistence of God is to lay claim to one of his core attributes: omniscience. Philosophically and conceptually, the claimant is already on a slippery slope towards to the belief in self-deification. Ron Carlson and Ed Decker reiterate:
It is philosophically impossible to be an atheist, since to be an atheist you must have infinite knowledge in order to know absolutely that there is no God. But to have infinite knowledge, you would have to be God yourself. It's hard to be God yourself and an atheist at the same time!
Indeed, to conclude with all certainty that there is no transcendent God outside the ontological plane of the physical universe, one must first claim omniscience. However, omniscience is a trait reserved exclusively for deities. Therefore, the claimant must conclude that he or she is a god. In this sense, atheism is not the rejection of a deity. Atheism is but a philosophical segue for the ontological relocation of God within man himself.
Het punt is dus dat je nooit kan bevestigen dat er geen god bestaat, omdat je daarvoor alwetend moet zijn, maar alwetendheid is een eigenschap van god dus zou je atheisme willen bevestigen zou je zelf een god moeten zijn.
Wat denken we er hier van?
[ Bericht 0% gewijzigd door Ali_Kannibali op 27-07-2009 03:04:44 ]