Atheist, you know that science is the way to go, and I agree, but do you know where you are going with it?

Question

Could science be going toward a truth in which the inner value of life would be fully blossoming, so much that no man would mind to see in it the presence of God in his life? Why should the inner value of life be only part of science as it is now in psychology where they only study pathological cases?

Anonymous in New England (and others with a similar answer), is that means that you admit that your form of atheism is a belief? I mean, as other atheist-answerers explained, science cannot tell what will be the next step. Only faith can allow you to restrict in advance the laws that relate thoughts and state of consciousness (dream, waking, etc.) with other variables (high blood pressure, cancers, crimes, etc.). If you don't restrict these laws and remain open, how can you tell that never, through our understanding and application of new laws, the inner value of life can unfold to such a degree that one would not mind to refer to it as the presence of God in his life?

To tell you honestly, I am not surprise at all that many atheists actually *believe* in atheism. It is in the human nature. As soon as we get rid of a belief system, it seems that we rush to adopt another one. We need to believe in something.

Answer 1

I think you are trying to correlate atheism with science and I don't think that is really a good idea. A lot of discussions here are about creationism v. evolution and usually atheists (of course) take the evolution side and talk about science but I don't think the two must go together. In fact, I think about half the scientists out there believe in god (I don't have hard numbers though).

In science you look for the truth of natural processes. How one extrapolates 'value in life' from that is a separate from the science itself.

Answer 2

I'm an atheist. Keep that it mind with the following statements.

Science will never provide people with a satisfactory value of life. Science will eventually tell people that it can prove they crawled out of the sea and descended from monkies. The inner value of life will always be in things that science cannot touch, like philosophy and poetry. If you're looking to science for the meaning of life, you aren't going to find it.

Answer 3

"do you know where you are going with it?"
Like in any court case - we follow the evidence.
It's one of the main reasons atheists don't accept the ‘god hypothesis’ - there is NO evidence.
Who cares where the evidence leads?
It's hardly the point - you go where it leads you.
What do you think?
Oh, it's getting dangerous out there; let's put our head back in the sand; let's stop all investigation cos it's unearthing stuff that we don't agree with *gulp*.
Sounds like the Galileo (look up 'galileo wiki') versus the Pope episode - recant, recant, recant.
Bruno (look up 'bruno wiki') didn't recant - he died.

But you don't know about this stuff do you?
Are you too afraid to look?
Do you think you might catch the disease called 'knowledge'?
They were rhetorical questions.

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I tried to add the wiki sources but Y!A doesn't like them much.
I'll try them here:
Nah.

Answer 4

SINCE YOU ADDRESS THIS QUESTION TO ATHEISTS,I HAVE TO REMIND YOU THAT WE-ATHEISTS-DON'T BELIEVE IN ANY GOD AND I-PERSONALLY-DREAM ABOUT THE DAY THAT NO ONE WILL SEE IN HIS LIFE THE PRESENCE OF A GOD.IF YOU COULD SAY YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT THE INNER VALUE OF LIFE I WOULD SAY MORE,BUT I HAVE TO REMIND YOU THAT EMOTIONS-LIKE EVERYTHING- HAVE TO DO WITH MATTER...

Answer 5

I am not certain I understand your question, but where ever sciencitifc evidence brings me is where I will be.

If science discovers god, I will believe in god.

Answer 6

If we already knew the answers it would not be science, now would it.

Answer 7

I am too sleepy to try and figure this out.

Answer 8

nowhere especially not with you and not in your delusion either .