And it is amusing that PZ thinks that murdering unborn children is "the right side of history"; I have absolutely no doubt that the atheists of the future will be denying that pro-abortion equalitarians were motivated by their atheism in much the same way that atheists today deny that rabidly murderous Communists were motivated by their atheism.
I think there's a rather logical way in which an atheist would find life more important. In order to get to the point where one can have science, falsifiability, and whatnot, one needs an observer. Now, if you are alive you are an observer. If you are dead, or not living, you aren't an observer- at least that's what the tenets of atheism imply. So, we need observers, and since atheists explicitly states there is no God, humans appear to be the best observers on the block, barring any extraterrestrial super-intelligent observers. Now, humans might be the most intellectually gifted observers that atheists are aware of, but we've all got to admit humans make mistakes. The only real solution for the reality of such flawed observers is to have many observers- in other words, protect and promote life.
Instead, there seems to be a tendency to suggest one can take non-existence around for a spin and see how one likes it, or that one can benefit from non-existence, or that folks in general could benefit from more people being non-existent.
No comments:
Post a Comment