tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14065121.post-1143836472147393272006-03-31T14:10:00.000-06:002006-03-31T14:21:12.183-06:00<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">It suddenly struck me why the theists out there, or more correctly some of them, cling to the idea of an afterlife. I was reading at <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/funk51.html">Mass Media Funk (Feb 23rd, 2006)</a> how Sacramento Zoo did a bit on Evolution to combat ID. Outside a fellow was handing out a pamphlet that said this:<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><blockquote>Science is neither theistic nor atheistic; it is non-theistic, just as are mathematics and statistics.</blockquote></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Among other things.<br /><br />I got worked up, as is usual, and started mutter to myself about the english language. How can these morons not realize that atheist and non-theist are the same thing. By definition an atheist is one without religion. They would counter by saying atheism is a religion. And that's when it hit me. This type of individual lacks the creative capacity to even CONCEIVE of a person who doesn't have a religion. Just not possible to them. So, how then can they conceive of dying and there being... nothing. Not darkness, not someplace else, not thought without form, NOTHING. They can't. <br /><br />Therefore, since they can't imagine nothing, then there must be something. And Heaven sounds awfully nice. So that must be it.<br /><br />The world would have been such a nice place if we'd never learned to talk.<br /></span>Glintirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08709702528333770392noreply@blogger.com