Do you NEED an explanation for "everything"?

[Santa_Claus]

Just wondering

Seems to me that a lot of Atheists have the same need as the Woo peddlers - to have an explanation for the great questions to where we come from / why we are here / where we are going etc etc. and for that Science seems to fill the god vacum. and of course the Climate Change Creationism scam meets the Rapture / EOTW need nicely

My Atheism comes from an understanding of human nature, and perhaps I also lack the gullibility gene so I have never needed convincing. I don't know how my toaster works - but I don't worship it becuase I don't know. The Science stuff? all very interesting (even if mostly gibberish to me) but for me it doesn't really matter that there is a scientific explanation for the sun appearing every morning or that I don't actually know how the sun works, let alone the more complicated stuff . I genuinely don't care.

Of course if everyone (throughout history) had been like me we would still be living in caves and there would be less of us due to Anal sex

[Tigger]

You don't know how a toaster works?

[Santa_Claus]

You don't know how a toaster works?

No (I think it's either something to do with Electrickery. or Jesus ).

But I can use one though so I don't need to know how it works.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I think you owe us an explanation!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Seems to me that a lot of Atheists have the same need as the Woo peddlers - to have an explanation for the great questions to where we come from / why we are here / where we are going etc etc. and for that Science seems to fill the god vacum. and of course the Climate Change Creationism scam meets the Rapture / EOTW need nicely

Lots of atheists? Or just the ones that make the most noise?

[Azathoth]

Science doesn't fill a god vacuum. Magic filled the knowledge vacuum for primitives. Unfortunately it still lingers

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Science doesn't fill a god vacuum. Magic filled the knowledge vacuum for primitives. Unfortunately it still lingers

Because so many of us are still primitives just under the skin.

[Adenosine]

What Aza said.

The more I understand the less I see the need for a god. It will be a happy day when everyone realises the same thing.

[Tero]

No, I don't know enough math. So at some point I decide to stick to Euclidian geometry, but define a 10 kilometer line as more or less the same as infinite. As far as I need to know.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

No, I don't know enough math. So at some point I decide to stick to Euclidian geometry, but define a 10 kilometer line as more or less the same as infinite. As far as I need to know.

Remind me never to ask you for directions!

[cowiz]

MAGNETS!!! WHAT THE FUCK?????

[Tero]

No, I don't know enough math. So at some point I decide to stick to Euclidian geometry, but define a 10 kilometer line as more or less the same as infinite. As far as I need to know.

Remind me never to ask you for directions!

Use GPS, it uses curves. If you go 100 miles in that direction, it is not a line, it is a curve.

[Bella Fortuna]

Science doesn't fill a god vacuum. Magic filled the knowledge vacuum for primitives. Unfortunately it still lingers

Yep - knowledge eliminates a vacuum. The vacuum is the lack of real explanations- even if the knowledge is vicarious it's still a description of how something in the universe functions based on evidence. I'm terrible at science and maths but just knowing that someone knows that stuff is good enough!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

[cowiz]

Science doesn't fill a god vacuum. Magic filled the knowledge vacuum for primitives. Unfortunately it still lingers

Yep - knowledge eliminates a vacuum. The vacuum is the lack of real explanations- even if the knowledge is vicarious it's still a description of how something in the universe functions based on evidence. I'm terrible at science and maths but just knowing that someone knows that stuff is good enough!

Bollocks. I read a book, gained knowledge and my vacuum cleaner remains.