Thursday, March 17, 2011

nature isn't trying

Steven J asserts...

Nature isn't trying to make things better (and so can neither succeed nor fail in doing so).

@Steven J

Are you saying that the belief that nature is trying to make things better is incompatible with atheism?

Of course, you aren't suggesting that one of the logical consequences of atheism is the belief that nature cannot try to make things better.

Because that idea flies in the face of the definition of atheism that is repeated here so often, that atheism is distinguished ONLY by the absence of belief in God (or any Gods). According to the definition, the idea that "nature tries to improve things" is fully compatible with atheism.

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